Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Saturday evening's edition of the Transcript contained a very vigorous, forcible and almost violent communication, protesting against the abolishment of foot ball. The writer says at the close: "Probably the next step will be to have the inter-collegiate boat-races conducted with steam launches, because "brutal" strength is needed at the oar. Is it a pleasant prospect that not game should be allowed except those that girls can have part in, and will it improve our race. "The puny weaklings who would be exterminated in a natural state of society will taken the a affirmative...
...committee, instead of trying to prohibit the game, consult with those among us who understand the game of foot ball, as to what changes in the rules will do away with the "brutal" part of the game, (for, as Prof. Byerly has said, and he probably voices the opinion of the other members of the Committee, the dangerous element of the game is the least objectionable, especially since that would be greatly done away with, if the "brutal" element were eliminated.) Let us then have a chance to make the necessary changes in the rules at the convention...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -There is it seems to me, a very serious slip in the Athletic Committee's argument in favor of prohibiting intercollegiate foot ball. The premises of the argument are these: 1-"foot ball as at present played by college teams, is brutal, demoralizing to players and spectators, and extremely dangerous;" (2) "and we do not believe that at the present time and with the prevailing spirit, any revision of the rules made by the Intercollegiate Association would be effective in removing these objectionable features." From these premises they draw the conclusion that inter college foot ball...
...other hand men among the students who have played foot ball and who understand the game, claim that changes can be made whereby the "brutal" and "demoralizing" features, and also much of the danger of the game can be done away with. It is also claimed that the "prevailing spirit" among the students is in favor of such changes, and that there is a very strong chance that such changes can be carried through the Intercollegiate foot ball convention. These opinions, as will be seen, are directly opposed to the assertion of the Committee. Who, I ask, is more likely...
After deliberate investigation, we have become convinced that the game of foot ball, as at present played by college teams, is brutal, demoralizing to players and spectators, and extremely dangerous, and we do not believe that at the present time and with the prevailing spirit, any revision of the rules made by the Intercollegiate Association would be effective in removing these objectionable features...