Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pails, which were placed at the foot of the tree, and were steadily replenished all the afternoon, mugs ad libitum being provided for all comers. There were singing, dancing, speaking intermingled with unlimited drinking. Not the slightest attempt was made to control or repress this. It was simply a brutal, howling orgies. There was little attempt at fun, no kind of system or traditional order, nothing but steady drinking and the resulting drunkenness...
...pleasantest feature of the Yale-Princeton game was the absence of the rough and brutal play which characterized the game at New York last year. There was just as much rivalry and just, as much spirit shown, but the players seemed to realize that they were not brutes but men. We were likewise much pleased at the very fair and impartial accounts of the game, written by representative Yale and Princeton men, which appeared in the Sunday Globe. When we recall the bitter feeling which was manifested on both sides after the game last Thanksgiving, and the wrangling which...
...meeting of the American Inter-collegiate Foot-ball Association last fall the rules were modified in many essential particulars. The object of the revises was to give as little chance as possible for rough and brutal play. After the battle in New York between Yale and Princeton, public opinion demanded a change of rules which would do away with the brutality which had characterized that game and in less degree other foot-ball games last fall...
...Some of the inter-collegiate contests last year gave offence to many persons who have heretofore supported them and believed that while they did some harm, they did more good. In particular, the game of foot-ball was played in such a brutal and dishonorable way that the faculty, after waiting two seasons to see if the players could not reform the game themselves, have been obliged to prohibit inter-collegiate foot-ball altogether. It is very improbable that a game which involves violent personal collision between opposing players can ever be made a good inter-collegiate game. None...
...Brutal, gashed, and swollen faces; wide gaping mouths, which opened for the last time to utter the death-shriek, and are now fixed forever in rigid agony; jagged, discolored teeth, sunken cheeks, knitted brows, dead, sodden eyes, awful contortions, ghastly smiles, hideous leers, faces of men and faces of women, faces of the young and faces of the old, faces which reek with the slime of years of vice and misery and despair; faces which Dante, groping among the damned, might have dragged from hideous, steaming depths of Lethean mud, and flung forth to front the unwilling...