Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first place there must be dash, enthusiasm, and speed to the cheer. Nothing is more depressing than a slow drawling cheer from one's own adherents, especially if the opponents cheer with confidence and enthusiasm. In the second place, continuous cheering a team that is believed to be beaten is almost always detrimental. The players always realize more than the spectators the task that is before them, and continual cheering of a nearly beaten team is quite likely to make the players feel that the spectators are losing confidence, and that feeling is very likely to be transmitted...
...yard dash Harvard should have first place with W. A. Schick, Jr., '05, but Torrey and Lowe of Yale will force him to do his best. The former has run the distance in less than ten seconds, but was beaten by Lowe at the Yale-Princeton meet...
...Brown team is entirely new this year and has at times shown surprisingly good from, but at others has played a poor game. It was twice beaten by Yale, on April 21 by a score of 19 to 1 and on May 9 by a score of 10 to 1. On April 20 Brown was defeated by Holy Cross by a score of 7 to 1, and on May 5 by Dartmouth, 10 to 0. The team also lost to Pennsylvania on May 11, 7 to 0. On April 25, however, it defeated Princeton, 7 to 3, making eleven hits...
...brush of about a mile and three-eighths between the second and third crews the former was beaten by nearly four lengths of open water. The second crew picked up the third at a point about half a mile below Harvard Bridge and the two crews rowed to Longwood Bridge. At the start the third crew was a length behind the second, but once through the bridge gained steadily up to the finish...
...three University crews were out on the river as usual yesterday afternoon. A fair amount of improvement, as a result of the work of the past week, was apparent. The first University, in a mile brush yesterday with the crew of the Union Boat Club, was beaten by about a length and a quarter in an upstream race from the Union Boat, Club to the Harvard Bridge. The time was five minutes flat. In the order of the first, the only change was that Bowditch rowed 7 in place of Duffy, who is sick. The second and third crews took...