Word: stiffer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stiffer practices and a good test against Harvard plays probably will be on the bill for the remainder of the week...
...Dartmouth as a line coach went "Swede" Youngstrom', 1919 All-American Dartmouth guard who blocked 23 punts in one season. A stiffer line, less passing, is to be the new strategy at Dartmouth...
...fact that "Because football attracted more spectators than soccer or lacrosse, and therefore gave its players more publicity, the idea arose that football was a nobler sport, and that its devotees were to be honored above the run of ordinary men." Is it not more probably true that the stiffer competition involved in major sports should of itself evoke a greater reward? After all a man who has one or two competitors for a position is less deserving of recognition than one who is successful in winning out over...
After some of the preliminary work was over the men were divided up into teams to play touch football. The entire practice yesterday was rather informal but with the coming of Coach Horween today, it is expected that a little stiffer program will be on schedule...
...organs, magazines, books. Ostensibly Sir Richard is perfectly willing that the Labrador forests should be transferred to the Dominion of Canada-for a sufficiently stiff price. But the exceedingly harmonious relations existing between him and the International Paper Co. with headquarters in Manhattan suggest that Sir Richard thinks a stiffer price can be got from Wall Street. The blatant nonsense about merging Newfoundland with the U. S. is probably a mere advance guard of publicity to prepare Newfoundlanders for U. S. dollar penetration...