Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prevalent opinion which now pervades the college. This chance will present itself to-day, when the eleven goes to Exeter. Exeter is by no means invincible, as many of the freshman class seem to think, and if the team goes into the game with a fixed determination to win, and not in a faint-hearted spirit, there are good grounds for believing that the freshmen may wrest a hard-contested victory from an Academy which now holds the foremost place in foot-ball among the preparatory schools of New England...
...score, they must block like men and not give way at every rush. Another evident point of weakness seems to be failure to drop on the ball in a scrimmage; Yale men as a rule rather like to do this than other-wise, and any team that wants to win must learn to do it, whether they like...
Only a few freshmen have yet signed to accompany their team to Andover to-day. The freshmen ought to know by this time that it is their duty to support the team well if they expect them to win. At least a hundred men ought to accompany the team...
...Yale freshmen, and may development for the University. Now '90 is doing neither of these things. They began with a slhurge, did fairly well for a freshman team, and at once thought they played rather better than the university did. Then they went to Groton, and managed to win a game; but they apparently have no "sand" left after this one game. They found that foot-ball meant work, and so they have stopped playing foot-ball entirely. For a week they have done nothing except come out on the field in a leisurely manner, look round a little while...
...They will be started from the steps of Matthews at 3.45, and seven minutes later the hounds will start with Webster, '87, as master. The hares will lay a trail for fifty minutes, and then drop their bags and break for the finish at the gymnasium. The hounds will win unless the hares come in fifteen minutes ahead. If the hares win, both get cups; also the first hound; otherwise the two first hounds win cups...