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Word: stronger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game yesterday was not one in which Harvard could have pride, but it also was not one by which Harvard need feel disgraced. Yale was clearly stronger, but Harvard was not altogether weak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/22/1894 | See Source »

...long before the game was called, a crowd came out to the field which nearly filled the bleachers and the grandstand. About fifty Harvard supporters were gathered in the right of the granstand and a somewhat smaller number of Princeton students at the left. Harvard's cheering was the stronger. The Yale men did not cheer at all, but applauded every good play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON WINS THE SERIES. | 6/7/1894 | See Source »

...price of the tickets is astonishingly small and it bring the trip quite within the means of hundreds of men. The effect of the cheering last Saturday on the work of the team was marked; stronger cheering still will act with telling force tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/5/1894 | See Source »

...doomed ot run themselves out in a short time. The farce kills the sport; it lowers the standard of play and lowers also the position of the games in the eyes of college men so that the spur for hard, serious practice is blunted. The downward tendency grows constantly stronger, It means that in a short time the series will have no excuse for existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/22/1894 | See Source »

...uncertain. They batted hard, but this was due to a great extent to the ineffectiveness of the Tufts pitcher. The inferiority of their opponents in the two last games has caused the players to become somewhat careless in their work. This indifference should be remedied by contesting with stronger teams. The score by innings is as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard '97, 19; Tufts '97, 4. | 5/12/1894 | See Source »

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