Word: beating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...George of the Mosely harriers, beat the amateur two-mile record (his own, 9m. 25 3-5s), at a late meeting of the London Athletic Club. Starting at the scratch against 25 competitors, he ran the distance...
...felt in New Haven when the college heard that their freshmen had been defeated by Williston Academy for the first time in ten years. But this only served to wake up the Yale freshmen. They saw that, unless they worked hard, there would be no chance for them to beat our '87 nine. The thought of losing the coveted seats on the "fence" spurred them on to greater efforts. When they learned of the defeat which Andove administered to our freshmen, all Yale once more became condfident of success, and the nine is receiving much encouragement on all hands...
...audience of about 500 people assembled yesterday afternoon to see Harvard beat Brown by a score of 8 to 1. A large delegation from Brown was present and supported their nine vigorously during the first part of the game...
...sophomores followed a freshman with a banger up Chapel street, but the sophomores were small and the freshman was large. A freshman and a banger beat two of a kind. [Yale Courant...
...these little Pennsylvania fellows who presumed to challenge them so boastfully. It was funny-funny enough to convulse more sober people even than the college crews are composed of. But now that the laugh is over, is it not about time for Harvard, Yale and Columbia to beat Pennsylvania and so establish their right to laugh? It might turn out to be the old story of the jovial Pat who was glad he had his laugh before he got over the fence to try the funny experiment of running the bull's nose into the ground. [Brunonian...