Word: support
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...slow. He fumbled a great deal and punted miserably. The offensive play of the backs was on the whole discouraging. Double passes and end around the other end plays nearly always resulted in a loss of ground. Cabot gained on these plays once or twice and with good support might have done better, but it is safe to say that unless materially strengthened by interference such plays are impracticable. The guards and tackles did the bulk of ground gaining, Bouve and Donald proving themselves strong in plunging through the line...
...schools of Yale and Columbia. Twenty-three men were present as candidates for the team, nearly all of them former players of experience and reputation at different colleges in the country. W. H. Gorrill acted as chairman and was empowered to appoint committees from each class to solicit support. C. O. Parrish was elected manager and F. S. Munro as temporary captain of the team...
...wish to question Mr. Whitney's sincerity, or the value of his efforts to purify athletics. He is working for a good cause and deserves far more support from the college public than he has received. But the task he has undertaken is tremendous, and we take the liberty to doubt the ability of any one man to keep a personal watch over the whold field of athletics. In fact it is apparent that in this case, as in many others, Mr. Whitney has been forced to depend upon secondhand, or at the best, outside, irresponsible information...
...intermediate territory between the professional and the amateur, the division line is to be drawn, is largely a matter of personal opinion. Certainly the best guide for Harvard men is the code of Harvard rules, while, as for the column in question, it can accomplish nothing without the support of public opinion, and next to nothing without the support of college athletic authorities...
...Whitney can surely do much to obtain this college support by personal application. He knows or ought to know, that the Harvard Athletic Committee is working for the same ends as he, and every whit as earnestly as he. Yet he has attacked individuals under the committee's jurisdiction, without giving them a chance to speak for themselves. The course he has thus taken runs the risk of error, and it tends very strongly to cause such distrust and illfeeling as to destroy the influence which he might exert as the ally of the conservative movement in the colleges toward...