Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard uses the power play to defeat the Lakers, 4-2, in the opener, and Ciavaglia nets his first collegiate hat trick to power the Crimson to a 5-2 second-game...
...crew, the nine, or the track might put Harvard to the fore, and such a man should be condemned cordially; but instead of that one hears him commiserated for being compelled to keep in training four or five months in the year. Such a spirit will never defeat Yale and Princeton. Men go out to the ball games and sit like so many dummies, almost afraid to cheer lest they may hurt their opponent's feelings, and if they do cheer it is not the old ringing, victory bringing, Harvard shout but a slow dirgelike moan that presages defeat. Would...
...feel ashamed for us. Discouragement is in the very air. Not among the teams, but on the part of the students, yet their apathy affects the athletic men, it can not help but do so. So long as the students of Harvard, as they have done this year, expect defeat and feel as if they had given up hoping for victory, we shall keep on being beaten. At the base ball games this spring the listless undergraduate spirit has been all too evident. We hope that this letter will be read by every student and that it will teach...
...power to prevent the occurance of what would be the crowing stroke of calamity to our athletic interests. The 'varsity nine has shown at various and intermittent times that it can play winning ball. The college can rest assured that the nine will do its utmost to defeat Yale on Saturday if it receives proper support. Every Harvard man should go to the game prepared to show Captain Willard that the college is backing him. The moment the game begins, some one should start a cheer, and that cheer should not for a moment be allowed...
...nine should adopt the policy of delaying the game, of resorting to trickery, unknown to our college teams before, and only on the level of professionalism, is utterly disgraceful and dishonorable, if not cowardly. If the game was begun, it should have been played in earnest. Fair defeat is no disgrace, far from it, but trickery and "muckerism" should never come into college athletics...