Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have Amherst come into the field next spring with a poorly supported nine. For a series of defeats will very likely result in Amherst's withdrawing from the league. Few students care to spend their money during a series of years for the pleasure of seeing their team beaten. In former years Amherst has often come out of her base-ball contests very near the top. And the games with her have almost always been very interesting. It would take away much of the present excitement over base-ball to have Amherst leave the league...
...running tracks, it is no wonder that Harvard, drawing from its sixteen hundred students, all of whom are anxious to represent their college in athletic contests, should be able to put forward a base-ball nine that wins every game it plays, a football team that is only beaten by Yale, and a boat crew that leaves even Yale in its wake...
...London, and they can only do that by steady, hard work and strict attention to details. The very first thing a crew has to learn is to keep time. Unless they do this there is no use in their ever going out on the water, for they would be beaten badly by a much inferior crew which did keep perfect time. And eighty-nine can learn this only by always keeping the question of time strictly before them in every thing they do collectively...
...trainer Frank Dole has been very unfortunate. Last year he trained the Wesleyan team and they were beaten by University of Pennsylvania; this year he trained the University of Pennsylvania team and they in turn were beaten by Wesleyan...
...spite of the unfavorable weather yesterday, the tournament was completed before four o'clock. In the singles Lee beat Federhen, 6-4, 6-3, and in the finals was beaten by Philip Sears after a brilliant contest, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5. In the last round of the doubles, the Sears brothers beat Kuhn and Keep, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Philip Sears is the college champion in singles, and he and his brother hold the championship in doubles. The tournament was a great contrast to last year's, the playing being spirited throughout and the whole affair...