Word: sports
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...earnest hope that the outcome of all this agitation by the Harvard Faculty will be to elevate the game to its rightful position as a manly and noble sport...
...will be the final action of the faculty as regards changes in the rules, and the ruling of the convention on Columbia's forfeited games. These will be awaited with interest and we can only hope that they may both be satisfactory and best promote the interests of the sport as an inter-collegiate contest...
...future action which the committee may desire to take; it applies only to the proposed Yale game. Prof. Norton hopes when the season is over that a convention of old Harvard foot-ball men may be called, in order to see what may be done to improve the sport...
...more desirable in the end. The position of the Harvard faculty has always been peculiar. At other colleges athletics are allowed to take their own course; at Harvard physical training is recognized as an important branch of education, and the faculty, therefore, 'interferes.' Foot-ball is too good a sport and too valuable an exercise to be allowed to degenerate into a contest of roughness and trickery...
...attempt was made to introduce the game as played in English schools, and today it is established as firmly as base-ball in many colleges, where it is played for its own sake, and is no longer used for hazing purposes. It furnishes excellent exercise and is a manly sport. We believe that the game is played by the university elevens in a manly way, and while the rules we have mentioned ought to be on the books to mark the limits of fair play and to provide punishment for any who may go beyond those limits, their existence does...