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Word: defeat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they never have before, at least so far as the 'Varsity crew is concerned. Yale has tied the score of races won or lost against Harvard, and has commenced this year's campaign more vigorously than ever. Rowing men here must cease wondering what were the causes of our defeat of the past two years, and look for the causes of Yale's success. Clearly it is because at Yale the captain of the 'Varsity crew is not expected nor allowed to be responsible for all things pertaining to his crew and its management. He is not called upon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/13/1887 | See Source »

...seen in athletic matters. Besides the eleven, which we believe is working hard, although no one seems to care whether it does or not, and the freshmen baseball nine, there is nothing moving. "Nothing succeeds like success," it is said. We had better take for our motto, "Nothdefeats like defeat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/11/1887 | See Source »

...that evening and they, since they were the noisiest, were taken collectively as an example of the typical freshman of the present year. Undoubtedly they have repented of their ignorance and folly before this, but their classmates will have to suffer until, by some more manly action, as the defeat of Yale at foot-ball, we may change our opinion of the new underclassmen, hoping it will represent the majority of them more truly than the one occasioned by an evening's nonsense publicly displayed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/8/1887 | See Source »

...that a captain for the freshman eleven has been chosen, there should be no dearth of men, who will regard it as an honor to play on their class team, and consequently go at it in a way which will betoken defeat to the freshmen from New Haven. There must be no tomfoolery about practicing and everyone should work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/7/1887 | See Source »

...great collegiate games, show this intense excitement of the spectators. Rushline tricks and signals which are enigmatic to opposing sides are next reviewed. Professor Johnston then speaks of the advantages of the training, which 'has enabled the players to show courage, constancy, an intelligent willingness to meet and defeat physical dangers and an ability to think connectedly in the presence of physical dangers, to an extent offered by no other form of exercise.' The game that presents such an array of purely scientific and courageous features cannot fail to merit the most universal sanction and approval, and yet newspaper criticism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American Game of Foot-Ball. | 10/7/1887 | See Source »

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