Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact is that Harvard track, on the verge of winning national recognition, is quickly joining crew and squash as a Harvard prestige sport. For McCurdy and his team, it's an unfamiliar position. Though few realize, the Crimson was once the Goliath of American track--back in the days that history books call the Golden Age of Harvard track...
...slaughter increased in brutality each year until finally in 1860 the Faculty outlawed its existence. There were, in that year, better ways for Northern gentlemen to vent their spleen. With an air of defiance, a group of players held a funeral service--complete with procession and eulogy for the sport. They dug a grave and buried a pigskin. Football at Harvard was officially dead...
Although the embalmed football remained in its grave of honor the sport experienced a renaissance in 1873. Students who had learned to play football in the Boston preparatory schools organized a game on the Cambridge Common without Administration protests. In no time, the new "Boston Game" became quite the Cambridge rage. Although the rules had changed little since the era of "Bloody Monday," the action was somehow less brutal. The players organized the Harvard University Football Club in December 1872, electing officers and codifying the traditional rules. Shortly afterward, Harvard declined Yale's desperate invitation to the Intercollegiate Association...
...long-awaited Harvard-Yale extravaganza finally took place in 1875. The game was played in New Haven and through some ingenious "compromise"--characteristic of this University's administrators--Harvard's rugby rules reigned. Harvard dominated the contest, taking full advantage of Yale's inexperience with an unfamiliar manly sport. The Harvard Advocate, a student periodical, summarized Yale's performance in the following words: "They showed very little discipline on the field, the different players not seeming to know their positions, and above all, failing in almost every instance to back each other up properly...
Although fencing turned out to be less wide-open and slashing than he expected, Winfield still found the sport exciting. "I'm sure its the fastest collegiate sport," he said...