Word: brutalize
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...Committee on Athletics, having become convinced that the game of foot ball, as at present played by college teams, is brutal, demoralizing to players and to spectators, and extremely dangerous, propose to request the faculty to prohibit the game after the close of the present season...
...which foot ball was being played. Without any previous warning, some very important regulations were laid down at the last minute, in such an arrogant way that instinctively every student opposed them. Not that anyone objected to the changes proposed, all were aware that the game was unnecessarily brutal. But this sudden awakening of the Committee, just before the great game of the year, seemed uncalled for, if not absurd. If was evident that, if the Committee did not know how the game was played they were unfit for their position, while if they did know it, they took...
...discussed, whether the time has not now come for the adoption of some uniform regulations that shall control the contests so frequently recurring between the athletic clubs of the different colleges. One of these games-foot-ball-it is charged, has degenerated into methods bordering on the barbarous and brutal, while others have engrossed so much of the attention of the players as seriously to interfere with the higher and real work for which colleges exist. One of the games, also, has sometimes brought the students taking part in it into such relations with professional players and their following...
...this city. We have not amused the public by giving them an account of the squabbles between our steward and the chairman of the House committee, nor enlivened our elections by issuing forged tickets and anonymous attacks on members, now given rise to false reports of duels by the brutal use of woman's names. [Cheers.] But then we are young, and perhaps before we reach the stage when such things are possible with us they may not be so popular as they seem...
...foot-ball life is short, but it is very merry, and his memories and reminiscences are often very curious and interesting when looked at by the light of the present day-curious and interesting, that is, for those who admire the game, who do not taboo it as brutal because they cannot see its science, and who remember that to every man who hunts there are a thousand who play foot-ball, and that the percentage of accidents in the hunting field very far exceeds that of foot-ball accidents. He still reads that famous chapter descriptive of the schoolhouse...