Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...finish the first four crews were almost even with a slight advantage to the first Newell and second Weld. Then the second Weld spurted, passed the first Newell, and led by half a length. Fifteen strokes from the finish the first Weld overhauled the first Newell, only being beaten three-quarters of a length by the second Weld. The shells of the first and second crews of both clubs were overlapping at the finish. The third crews finished two lengths of open water behind the second Newell, the third Weld winning by only a few feet...
...baseball team returned to Cambridge yesterday from its southern trip, during which four games were won. A week ago Saturday the University of Virginia was defeated by a score of 11 to 8; on Tuesday Annapolis was beaten 13 to 7; on Thursday a team of substitutes won from Annapolis by a score of 17 to 5, and on Saturday West Point was defeated...
...University basketball team will play Columbia in the Gymnasium at 8 o'clock tonight. The game should be hard, as Columbia has beaten both Yale and Princeton recently and is now playing the strongest game of any team in the league...
...athletic brethren with whom we have competed on the other side of the water, have taken up athletics not for a career or a profession but for exercise and sport. Nothing showed this better than the characteristic remark made by Garnier when he was told that he had been beaten on the tape in the hurdles: "Well, I'm sorry," he said, "but after all it was a good race." Our duty as university athletes is, to adapt the words of George Washington, to raise an athletic standard to which the wise and honest can repair...
...know, an unfortunate time to present this suggestion because, it is unhappily the fact, that in the last two races Harvard has been beaten by Yale after the three mile mark was passed, and therefore it can, and will be said that Harvard wishes to row three miles, because she cannot win at four. This is a discussion into which I will not go at present. I offer this suggestion now, because I believe that all the boys (men if you prefer so to call them) not only of Harvard, but also of Yale, who take part in these contests...