Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spite of its defeat by Princeton, the Dartmouth team comes to Cambridge today with a spirit of determination and a confidence in its ability that is strongly echoed by the student body behind it. Dartmouth men feel that their team possesses a power that has not yet had a fair opportunity to display itself. It is the power that was evidenced in the Colby game, strikingly shown in periods of the Williams game, and brought out with the determination of a strong team following the Princeton touchdown in New York...
...likely to lose ours and become over-confident. I have no fear for Yale, but I have the greatest respect for them, for I have seen them under similar circumstances to these of the present, come back like a thousand of brick and snatch victory from a Yale defeat...
...will have had this season to evince its interest in the score at New Haven on Saturday. Furthermore, every member of the class cannot but appreciate to a certain degree the amount of drudgery necessary to bring the team to the eve of the Yale game with only one defeat. And thirdly, the 1914 Freshman team has a high criterion to emulate: 1912 broke the long line of Freshman football defeats by Yale, 1913 proved equal to this standard, and now it remains for 1914 to do all in its power to continue this excellent record...
...this afternoon at half-past three and march to the Field with his class. Only in this way, by a display of splendid enthusiasm, can the team know that the class is behind it to a man and hence derive a confidence and spirit which will brook no defeat...
...decided victory gained over Yale by the cross-country team yesterday demonstrated undeniably the value of a proficient coach. This is the second success which has taken the place of a defeat last season. Although the material this fall is better than a year ago, this alone cannot account for so radical a reversion of the scores. In the race at New Haven last year, six Yale runners finished before the first Harvard man, giving to the home team a victory with the smallest possible score. In the race yesterday, four runners of the University team finished among the first...