Word: stubborn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshmen forwards showed brilliant flashes of good individual form, but their lack of co-operation accounts for the fact that no goals were scored. The whole informal team put up a stubborn man-to-man defence which broke up the opposing rushes, but was of no offensive value...
...expert judgment passed on our team, and that judgment approved of Coach Wallace's product. Our Freshmen are going to realize that during the coming fortnight more real work must be done than during all the weeks which have passed. Princeton and Yale will meet an organization not only stubborn in resistance, but one which is out for victory...
...must remember, should our armies enter into Germany for the complete submission of her stubborn people, that not by the torch nor by the sword may Belgium be avenged. For that there is no atonement. The burning of every German city and the death of every man who defends his invaded country would not bring back one murdered Belgian citizen, would not uprear one razed hamlet, would not make clean...
...near future and that other New Haven game: we know that winning from Princeton is an old Yale custom--a rule which has been proved by few exceptions since 1899. Of late years, too, the habit of losing on the following Saturday has developed. Yale's customs are stubborn things to uproot...
...play scored four touchdowns and a dropkick. Enwright was the first man to score, for when the seconds had held the regulars twice on their one-yard line, he took the ball and managed to drive his way through between the goal-posts for a touchdown, although the stubborn resistence offered by Captain Selden's team was such that the ball was placed just barely over the line. End runs contributed the other three touchdowns, Captain Mahan running 20 yards for the first, Harte carrying the ball on the second, and Lyman scoring the third on the end-around play...