Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...little ground for such a sweeping assertion. I write this the more frankly because I believe the majority of Princeton men admit that at least they were overmatched, and Harvard's relations with Princeton have always been the pleasanter for the universal manliness with which the Jersey men accept defeat, when fortune wills that it shall be theirs...
...Yale freshmen, the class of '90 did not consider the question of the '89 race, and consequently '91 ought not to be influenced, as we said she should, by the outcome of last year's contest. In favor of this view we hear that the Yale '89 crew practically defeated our freshmen two years ago, but the fact that they did not know how to row well enough in rough water, and so did not reach the finish-but the bottom-first has nothing to do with the matter. It is a good thing when a college knows...
Amherst has refused to play Williams at foot-ball. The Williams Weekly gives as a reason of Amherst's refusal, her fear of certain defeat...
...most of the men who helped to defeat Harvard last June are still in college. They are Carter, Gill, Stevenson (captain), Wilcox and Woodruff. Caldwell and Rogers are both back, but both positively decline to row. The new men are Cross, '89; Clawson, '89 S.; Wells, '89; Janus, '90; Newell, '90; Burroughs, '89 S., and a number of freshmen. Several of these are foot-ball men and will not commence rowing until the foot-ball season is over...
...rush line is all that will save Yale from certain defeat. There are several weak spots in it now, but good coaching ought to remedy these within the next nine days. Most of the men in the rush line are really phenomenal players, but still they cannot play the whole game any more than a crack battery can win a championship for a poor base ball nine. Pratt and Wallace are to be the end rushers. The former was substitute in the '87 crew, and the latter has made a great reputation during the last two seasons by demonstrating that...