Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...best in men. Last Saturday the crowds applauded Boynton not only because his playing was spectacular, but because it was also the clean playing of a gentleman. Coach Moran of Centre College boasts that Harvard will never have faced a "cleaner playing team." That is the real football spirit; that is why the game is scarcely tainted with professionalism and the rowdyism that goes with it. This fall there have been crowds in the stadium who were so ignorant as to believe that the gentleman's code applied only to the players. Prolonged "boos" have greeted official decisions; cheers have...
...this limping line-up the Ex-onians will oppose a team far below their usual aggregation. Former high school players and experienced men are notable by their absence. But Coach Blake, a former Dartmouth star, may be counted on to present a well rounded team supplying with plenty of spirit and a variety of unusual plays what it lacks in sheer weight and strength...
Examination of the scheme as proposed in the circular would certainly lead one to hope that no general agitation for the acceptance of the plan as it now stands will be started. While the spirit behind the suggestions is undoubtedly earnest, there are flaws which would make the scheme as a whole unwieldy if not impossible...
...Coach Ryan's yearlings were called onto the field for a half hour of hard scrimmaging. The Freshmen showed plenty of spirit, but were obviously no match for their heavier and more experienced opponents. Twice, however, they crashed through the First Team for first downs, and once they penetrated into the enemy territory...
...brief, Brooks House is the clearing house by means of which the altruistic spirit of Harvard men is organized and given expression. Obviously such an organization cannot function properly without finances; hence the necessity for this week's campaign, which will be the only one this year. Brooks House makes no appeal for support on sentimental grounds. It does, however, expect that all Harvard men who believe in the work it has done and is doing shall support it generously...