Word: vim
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first time during the afternoon was successful. Score Harvard 35, Yale 8. For some time after the ball was put in play both teams worked well and kept it at the centre of the field. But soon Yale braced for a final effort. Bliss and Owsley play with greater vim than at any time during the game. Bliss carried the ball well into Harvard's territory by a brilliant rush. Again Yale resorted to kicking tactics. Owsley's punt was well returned by Trafford, but Owsley caught it and aided by good blocking carried the ball to Harvard's three...
...Tompkins, of the '84 Yale eleven speaks as follows of the present Yale team: "Yale is all right behind the rush line, but in the line she is weak. The players are lazy and do not go forward with the vim and spirit which has characterized the work of Yale in previous years...
...Hunt then addressed the freshmen for a few moments and impressed upon them the necessity of encouraging their eleven by personal presence and active support. He said that they must play with much more vim and snap if they wished to beat the Yale freshmen. He suggested that a manager of the eleven be chosen, and Churchill, of Andover, was nominated for that position. Churchill resigned in favor of F. W. Moore of Andover who was elected by acclamation...
Work at football has now begun in earnest, and the men are all playing with a great deal of vim and determination. The loss of several of last year's best players is a serious drawback on the prospects of an eleven for this year, and Captain Cumnock evidently sees that to win against Yale or Princeton, he must make the most of the men he has and try to develop good men by hard and conscientious work...
...efforts that are being made at Yale to put a victorious crew on the water this year surpass all those of previous years. The score in the number of races won by each college in the Harvard-Yale senies is now even, and the vim and energy-which the candidates for the crew are putting in their work shows what importance they attach to the old race at New Haven. The candidates have just gone to the training table. The men who are trying for places in the boat are Captain Stevenson, Carter, who was starboard last year; Woodruff...