Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...football season is at hand. Will a regenerated opinion show that Harvard can win as well as lose; or will the old lackadaisical spirit-occasioned, we believe, by a morbid fear of criticism-influence those who ought to offer their services and prevent them from making themselves known? If the new students of this year will be brave enough to care nothing for the feelings which certain badly bred but omnipresent persons are rude enough to show, then we may never hear again that remark which has become now extremely trite, "Oh! They don't know how to play foot...
...mile course-that is to say, the stretch between the Navy Yard and the finish flag opposite Winthrop's Point. The weather was beautiful and the water was comparatively smooth. The Columbia men were rather smaller than the Harvard Freshmen, and it was generally supposed that the latter would win easily...
...EXCITING CONTEST.After the Columbia race, Harvard's boating stock seemed to take a decided boom. Everyone decided to go to New London to see the race, and as Harvard had beaten the record it was taken for granted that Yale must have to row a desperate race to win...
...Disadvantages consequent upon location cannot be remedied, but the principal cause of our repeated defeats can be removed. Until there is a cinder track at Cornell, it is safe to say that our runners, at least, will never win anything at Mott Haven. Only those accustomed to running on loose cinders can show to advantage on the tracks in New York City. The long heavy stride developed on a hard, firm clay track is totally unsuited to ground that cups at every step. Practice on a cinder track, however, in time develops a short light step eminently adapted to loose...
...authorities says, if the young men were attempting to jockey the public, and, so to speak, inveigle innocent and unsuspecting betters into a confidence game, it would be all right for them to put forth what are, to say the least, misleading reports concerning their condition and chances of winning. If college races are to become hippodrome contests, then those engaged in them and their friends, are no doubt, under the questionable laws of sport, entitled to make out of them, financially, all that they can, and there is no reason why the tricks of the trade should then...