Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first game of the season Yale easily defeated Wesleyan 25 to 0. It was a game of open, spectacular playing, and Yale was much superior to the opponents in speed, strength, and team work. In the game with Syracuse the university team was able to score only two touchdowns and the work was very ragged and discouraging. The team made a somewhat better showing, however, in the game with Springfield Training School, in which 17 points to 0 were scored. Possibilities for a great eleven were shown, yet brilliant individual football rather than steady team play characterized the game...
Princeton was the first to score, on a goal from foul by Clark, but Harvard immediately tied the score with one by Broun. Brooks threw the first field goal of the game on an easy chance and Broun shortly afterwards increased Harvard's lead by a long spectacular side shot. Halliday scored Princeton's only field goal in the first half. The score at the end of the period was 10 to 6 in Harvard's favor...
...people listened to the public press, said Mr. McCall, it would seem that the importance of a college is for athletics, and incidentally, at most, for education. True, there is nothing spectacular in scholarship; but nothing depends more upon individual effort. Athletics ought not to be denounced; athletics are a good thing if indulged in by everybody, and they develop courage; but there is no question of the vast superiority of intellectual work...
...Biglow broke through the line and after blocking the ball downed it on Yale's 44-yard line. Several exchanges of punts followed on one of which Veeder sent the ball over Harvard's goal line for a touchback. On Burr's kick-out Knox made the the most spectacular play of the game, running the ball back, aided by excellent interference, from his 45-yard line to the University team's 22-yard line--this run of 43 yards being the longest in the game. From this point Yale rushed the ball to the 11-yard line where...
Jones made a spectacular end run but gained only three yards. The ball was taken back, however, and Yale was penalized five yards for offside play. With the ball on Harvard's 30-yard line Veeder made five yards. Knox was thrown for a five yard loss by Osborne...