Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hazardous a system this bowing submissively to the opinion of a 'Varsity captain, and the sooner the custom is abandoned and a return made to the very plan which Yale now goes by (taken from Harvard originally and deliberately abandoned here) the sooner will Harvard crews win, and not before...
...should be no dearth of men, who will regard it as an honor to play on their class team, and consequently go at it in a way which will betoken defeat to the freshmen from New Haven. There must be no tomfoolery about practicing and everyone should work to win...
With a happy illustration the writer shows the great popularity of the game among college men, who watch their respective sides win or lose with the greatest excitement and emotion. Cheers, noise of trumpets and horns, waving of hand achieves, 'embracing' and 'general delirium' in all great collegiate games, show this intense excitement of the spectators. Rushline tricks and signals which are enigmatic to opposing sides are next reviewed. Professor Johnston then speaks of the advantages of the training, which 'has enabled the players to show courage, constancy, an intelligent willingness to meet and defeat physical dangers and an ability...
...have got to work very hard this year for the championship. Nothing but the hardest kind of work will win it for us. We hear that both Princeton and Harvard have exceptionally strong teams in practice, but we don't mean to let them get away with us if we can help it. There will be no holding or slugging allowed in the game this year, so our men will be specially trained against these defects. According to the new rules we will have two referees, one to watch the ball, and the other to watch the men. Of last...
...twice as many men to the other colleges as here, and the number of men who have gone to Yale from Andover is unprecedented. The only way to overcome this change of feeling is for Harvard to enter the athletic field with greater determination, vim and energy, and to win at least one of the three championships to which greatest importance is attached by the college at large...