Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...game was played in a drizzling rain and resulted in an overwhelming defeat of Brook...
...present to our readers for some time. It is too apt to be the case that as a university grows in numbers and therefore in social facilities, the athletic opportunities of collegiate life fall into disrepute. This has been an occasional reason offered to account for an occasional athletic defeat. The steady increase in the number of lockers in use, until now it has reached a requirement of fifty beyond the limit, is an answer to this criticism of Harvard. But it does seem extraordinary that when so many men are daily thrown into athletic competition, there is not aroused...
...which spurs on a foot-ball team to do its best more than the sight of a crowd of their own classmates. After the splendid score made against the Grotonian's last Wednesday, there is no chance for the "growlers" to come forward with their dismal croakings predicting the defeat of their own team. The work done by the freshman team so far shows clearly that it is one of the best that has entered college in some time. For a year or two past, freshman teams have been wont to look upon the Exeter game with a certain...
...students who were out on Jarvis Field Saturday afternoon saw Harvard defeat Stevens by a score of forty-four points to nothing; but they also saw more than that. They saw Harvard for the first half hour play as poor a game as it is possible for a university team to play. Every man in the rush-line, without exception, tackled high, as high as they could reach. Brooks, who ought to set the team a good example, was fully as bad, if not worse than the rest of the men in this respect, time and time again jumping...
...last chance to speak words of encouragement to the nine, which we trust will to-morrow make one more step toward gaining the baseball championship for Harvard. That they will strain every nerve to defeat the only opponents who stand between us and victory, every man in college knows. Thousands of eyes will be turned on the nine to-morrow, and cheers from countless throats will show the good will and enthusiasm of the spectators...