Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should not apply in both cases. The conditions for all would then be fairer, and scientific training and skilful playing would then be far more important elements of the game than they are at present. Join this to the reforms of the game which will do away with its unfair, brutal and unmanly elements, and we may again play the game at Harvard...
...light of the facts stated by the manager of our freshman eleven in our issue of this morning, it seems to us that the action of the Yale eleven cannot be too strongly condemned as ungentlemanly, discourteous, and unfair. Knowing that our eleven, by the rules of the faculty, could only play upon Saturday, the Yale men insisted upon some other day, but finally with a bad grace, yielded to the just demands of our freshmen. Then the affair was considered settled. The action of Yale in agreeing to the date was published in all the papers; a gentleman...
...nature of the game puts a premium on unfair play, inasmuch as such play is easy, is profitable if it succeeds, is unlikely to be detected by the referee, and if detected is very slightly punished...
...teams are at all evenly matched, and one plays a gentlemanly and the other an unfair game, the self-respecting team will always be beaten...
...four games which we attended, there were but two cases where a player was punished for brutal or unfair play. In several cases the team was punished by having a "down" given to the other side, but only twice was a man disqualified...