Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that the team won without any assistance of theirs, and that they lost the opportunity of seeing a fine game. A freshman class does not win so many victories over Yale that it can afford to let them pass by unnoticed. It is to be hoped that '91 will wake up and show some interest hereafter in their team. The success of the eleven is largely due to the efforts of the captain, who is deserving of the highest praise. The football team has done its work nobly; it now remains for the nine and the crew...
...game began at 3.30 with the ball in Exeter's possession. Exeter started in with great snap and in three or four quick rushes placed the ball behind the goal line of the surprised freshmen. McClung kicked a goal. Score, 6-0. '91 began to wake up at this point and played a strong game. Rushes were made on both sides, but no other point was scored during the first half. At the beginning of the second half, '91 forced the ball close to Exeter's goal where they tried for a goal from the field but failed. Exeter kicked...
...while Columbia, who had reduced her competitors' lead to three lengths, was desperately struggling to crawl up still further. But it was of no avail, and Harvard swept down to the finish amid cheers and yells, thundering of guns, and blowing of horns, while Columbia pluckily followed in her wake. As the boats neared the line, Storrow took her up a little and Harvard passed the four-mile flag in 20m 15s., beating the record by seventeen seconds...
...Should wake up to his work, and be careful not to hang...
...this time we find base-ball enthusiasm in all colleges at a high pitch. The Hamilton paper I have alluded to before, prints a lurid editorial on the subject: "Wake up, ballers! Make Hamilton shine this year. Make ball playing red hot! . . . . Our practice here don't amount to shucks! We are lazy and self-conceited; and we had better not practice at all than practice as we do. . . .One and all, wake...