Word: unfairness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...features of the game was the fine work done by Harvard's center and guards in breaking through; Yale was unable to hold them. The whole Harvard team did so well that it seems unfair to distinguish between the men, but if any should be mentioned, Clark, Weld, Cumnock and Nichols are the ones. For Yale, McBride and Roby distinguished themselves. The referee was Mr. Alexander, Harvard; umpire, Mr. Herrick, Technology...
There are often occasions in which the press is unfair to college students and their customs, but the defamers of the game of foot-ball have a certain license in their attacks which is not allowed other detractors, owing probably to the apparent fighting which goes on between the rush lines of two elevens. The Boston Record of Monday launched out in a frantic tirade against the barbarity of the Princeton-Harvard game. Now, every one who saw that game knows how devoid of "slugging" it was, how critical the umpiring, and little the kicking. Yet we find the following...
...Competition without profit unfair to companies...
...action of the Harvard seniors in passing a resolution deeming it inadvisable to row Columbia before the Yale-Harvard race was ungenerous and unfair. The matter will be more fully discussed in our next issue.- Columbia Spectator...
...start was ridiculously unfair. The Crescents started long before the word-which was given, by the way, while a number of the 'Varsity eight were taking off their jerseys. The water was very rough-all the crews splashing badly. At the Crescent boat-house, Harvard was a length ahead, which it increased to three lengths at the finish. For the first half mile or so, Harvard rowed about thirty five strokes to the minute, but during the latter part of the race Storrow slowed down to thirty or thirty-one. The Bradfords and Crescents seemed to vie with each other...