Word: winning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...statements, and added that the team had been severely handicapped by most unfavorable weather conditions, as well as by the loss of at least seven promising candidates through injuries or poor academic standing. Only by the hardest work on the part of every candidate can be University team win the Columbia game, which comes shortly after the recess...
...affirmative. My colleagues have shown, he said, that football demands extreme and excessive methods and fosters a spirit that calls for success at any price. We have already shown that it is responsible for physical harm and mental mediocrity. Finally it remains to prove that the immoderate desire to win demands success at the sacrifice of honor and fair play. There is a distinct tendency today towards unfair, and brutal playing, and this unfits football for a place among college sports. Unfair methods are profitable towards victory, and there is every incentive to their use. The close formations and mass...
...only say it, they have not proved it. On the statement that opportunities for foul play do exist, we agree. Opportunities are ample, but the only way to overcome temptations is to meet them face to face. Our opponents say that the tendency is too strong to play to win at all costs. Take for example the recent contest between Princeton and Yale. Both teams were anxious to win, but a cleaner contest has never been played on a college football field. Having met and refuted all the arguments of our opponents, I wish to restate the three main contentions...
...football not the men in the stands. We affirm that no other contest, as a contest, has so many evils as football. Our opponents talk about bumps and oruises. Ask some old football men. They will tell you how they have been completely exhausted by their undergraduate "efforts to win," and how as a result their constitutions are weakened. The men who play football today must choose football without training, with its chances of injury and possible death, or training and constitutional weakness for the rest of their days. This training requires all except five hours out of the twenty...
...flower of the older conception. Christianity is not only the striving of man towards God, but it is also the striving on the part of the Father to find man. The difference between Christianity and all other religions is this belief in God seeking humanity. In his desire to win "lost souls," for the term means merely souls which have not yet been found, God is performing a continual sacrifice...