Word: wrest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should have ordered the Yale-Princeton game to be played over, which Princeton was ready and willing to do. As far as the championship is concerned, although there is no championship of 1886, Princeton holds the supremacy of foot-ball to-day, by reason of Yale's failure to wrest it from her, just as anyone holds the first place until he is deprived of or forfeits it. There is ample room for legislation next year. One thing is assured - the match between the leaders in 1887 will be played on neutral grounds, and with a neutral referee. The custom...
...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...
...ball men should be allowed to spree. The freshmen, by superior coaching, took the first two canes, the light-weight and the middle-weight. The struggle for the heavy-weight cane was a stubborn contest; after working hard for one hour and forty minutes, neither man was able to wrest it from his opponent and the cane was divided, the freshmen thus getting 2 1-2 canes and the sophomores only 1-2 a cane...
...that done by the Harvard freshmen. A visit to Wood's gymnasium is only required in order to see with what will and determination the Columbia freshman handle the oars; they have been defeated so many times by Harvard, that this year they are making extraordinary efforts to wrest victory from her. They are at present rowing eighteen men, and all are trying for positions on the crew. They are undergoing systematic training, being coached while at work by some "'varsity" man. They row about twenty minutes every day, run a slow mile and a fast half mile, and pull...
...feel that there is no need that they should be urged to do their duty. We do not doubt that hard and faithful training is being done, but we would call the attention of the candidates to the exceptionally strong efforts being made this year at other colleges to wrest the inter-collegiate championship from Harvard. The Yale trainer is reported in the papers as saying that Yale will send a stronger team to Mott Haven than she has for years; and Columbia, to, has a hard working squad, bent upon gaining renown for Columbia in track athletics. Brooks...