Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...their desperation, they retaliate and finally learn to play the game which meets the condemnation of every one except a few "Yale supporters," who follow the team about, forced by the public opinion of their college to wave the blue handkerchiefs, sport the blazing society pins, and applaud the "thug like" playing which is greeted by everybody else with disapprobation and hisses...
...wonder, then, that Yale has become thoroughly imbued with the "thug" system, and it is now time for all colleges who discountenance such practises to unite in putting a stop to them. What I would advocate is a careful revision of the rules in all intercollegiate contests in which Yale takes part, so as to exclude all manifestations of "Yaleism." For instance, since Yale takes advantage of the rule requiring three warnings to send a man from the foot-ball field, adopt a rule requiring only one warning; thus the Yale rushers would not be allowed two warnings without punishment...