Word: sports
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Another gratifying circumstance in this connection is the doing away with summer practice and the putting off of all hard work until the beginning of the college year. This step makes football more of a sport and less of a business for the men and is especially desirable, since it is doubtful whether any real benefit was ever derived from summer practice. It also speaks well for the harmony of opinion which exists between the football management and the athletic committee and for the system of undergraduate representation in that body...
...hard and faithful work entitles it; and of acknowledging, as best it can, the debt of gratitude which all Harvard men owe to Mr. Lehmann in return for what he has done, particularly for the rowing interests of the University and in general for the good of college sport in America. It has fallen to Mr. Lehmann to teach us all the lesson of true sportsmanship: to treat opponents with fairness and courtesy, and to strive to the end that the best team...
...improved steadily and has finally won the intercollegiate championship by defeating teams which had three or four times as many candidates to choose from. All this has been done under difficulties. There never has been any crease or special field of any kind set apart for the sport in the University, and as the crease in allston, which has formerly been used, was not available this year, the men have had to practice wherever and whenever they could. The important matches have all been won by plucky, uphill work, especially on the part...
...view of these circumstances it seems as though the game ought to be more generally recogized, and at least ought to have some regular place for practice next year. It is the kind of sport which President Eliot strongly advocated in his recent talk on athletics, requiring skill before strength and not calling for such hard or extensive training as to necessitate neglect of college work or other interests...
...Holmes Field, has just returned from a trip abroad and is made up entirely of old and experienced men. A good game of lacrosse may therefore be expected, and, considering the earnest, persistent way in which the Harvard organization has worked for the last three years to introduce the sport into the University and to gain recognition as a University team, the CRIMSON would like to see all who can do so attend the game this afternoon in order that the efforts of the team may not go unnoticed...