Word: strain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number of the Monthly which came out yesterday begins with a most interesting article by Professor Hollis on "The Moral Aspect of College Sports." "The politics, the heavy physical strain, and the distractions of certain sports seem to outweigh, in many minds," says Professor Hollis in this article, "the positive good that springs from them. This prejudice is, doubtless, based upon the abuses of ten or fifteen years back, when athletics had run mad. Things have changed, however, and the old influences have disappeared. Many practices once thought legitimate have been given up as leading to bad sport, and college...
Although the Pennsylvania team has been playing an unusually poor game all the season, their stand against Harvard on Saturday was unexpectedly weak. Aside from many technical and general faults in their eleven, the physical condition of the men was much inferior to that of Harvard. The strain of their trip to Chicago a week ago, coupled with the questionable policy of keeping the team at the seashore until the morning of the game, resulted in the exhaustion of even those members of the team who were not crippled. The Harvard team, however, was in superb condition...
...University team had half an hour's secret practice yesterday afternoon before leaving for Philadelphia. The men went through the work briskly and seemed to be in excellent condition to stand the strain of Saturday's game. An innovation introduced was practice in lunging. The men stood in line and at the signal of a pistol shot lunged forward at full length. It is expected that this new mode of practice, though somewhat tardy in its introduction, will be of service to the linemen when playing low on the defense. In the fifteen minutes of sharp signal practice which followed...
...such records as this which justify athletics, and which explain the honorable position in the college world which is accorded to some athletic leaders. To strain to the utmost every muscle, to tax every mental resource, and to exercise all the manly qualities which are demanded in the athlete, these are surely worth while in themselves independent of victory or defeat. Harvard has had many captains who have done these things, but few who have done them as disinterestedly as Goodrich. His final act of self effacement, however necessary it may have seemed to him and to the coaches...
...nine will not be changed and only seven men exclusive of the regular in and out-field will be taken: Chandler, substitute fielder; Davis and Ried, catchers; and Fitz, Morse, Hayes and Cozzens, pitchers. Clark is still ill and will hardly be in condition to undergo the strain of a long trip. He will probably be tried again in the infield, however, upon the return of the nine, when a general reversal is apt to be made in a number of the in-field positions...