Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ninety-one scored two touchdowns in one half hour against Cambridge High school yesterday afternoon. Weld kicked one goal. Cambridge played a stubborn game but was too light for Ninety-one. The teams lined up as follows: Ninety-one-Rushers: Corning, Lhoewenstein, Bangs, Wainwright, Crimes, Fisher, Huntress; quarter-back, Nicholls; hall-backs, Weld, Blaney; full-back, Bass. Cambridge-Rushers: McDaniel, Howlatt, Hill, Haynes, Dickinson, Sprague, Harding; quarter back, Wrenn; half backs, Stark, Corbett; full back, Clark...
...between Harvard, '92, and Technology, '92, was won by the latter after a stubborn fight. The teams were as follows: Technology-F. H. Harvey, anchor, W. R. Kales, No. 3, S. W. Weis, No. 2, W. W. Locke, No. 1; Harvard-F. Allen, anchor, M. M. Smith, No. 3, M. I. Motte, No. 2 H. L. Grant...
After the introduction of the game by the class of '66, nines were formed in the various classes and many a stubborn contest was played by the different teams. These games brought out many men who showed proficiency in playing, and on October 12, 1864, a 'varsity club was formed. This club played many games with representatives of the different colleges, and with other amateur nines. In 1868, it received a challenge from Yale to play a championship game, in which the condition was that the men on both teams should be chosen from the academically departments. This challenge...
...slightest doubt that if the conditions had been more favorable, and the team had played as strongly as it has at times this fall, it would have given Princeton even a closer rub than it did. The twelve points by which we were beaten does not indicate how stubborn and close the contest was. The Harvard team played an up-hill game from the start and played it pluckily, and though the eleven proved weak in some unexpected places, and things happened which would have excused a team for going to pieces, Sears held the men well together...
...excellence of the institution and its advantages to the State are acknowledged by even its enemies. Five sixths of the colored teachers in Atlanta are graduates of the university and a large proportion is found in all the cities of Georgia. The Atlanta University deserves support for its stubborn attempt to elevate the colored race and to extinguish the hated race distinction in one of the most advanced and prosperous of the Southern States. It is amalgamating the two races by showing to the oppressors what useful citizens the members of the proscribed race become when properly treated...