Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...four consecutive years Harvard has celebrated victories over Yale. Last Saturday was the first time under Haughton's regime that the Blue eleven has been able to cross our goal line. Such a series of glorious conquests must not be forgotten at a time of temporary defeat. Yale won a close, fiercely-contested battle and won with a superior football machine. Every gridiron contest is decided to a greater or less degree by the so-called breaks of the game. The advantages of this character certainly were with the Blue, combined with these was a well-trained, powerful unit...
...transcending the bitter disappointment of defeat is the satisfaction of knowing that our team fought with a tonacity and spirit that will long be remembered by Harvard men. With a Yale team spurred on by the goad of former crushing defeats only twelve yards from a touchdown, the Crimson line withstood eight frantic onslaughts, while the fighting spirit of Harvard reduced the gains from yards to foot. Such a superhuman stand was a tribute to both the coaches and players of the 1916 team...
...first league game, however, with Princeton, the University was defeated 2 to 4, but retrieved this defeat later by taking the game from Cornell by the same score. In the most critical game of the series, that with Pennsylvania last Saturday, the University lost...
Yale is the home of miraculous "come-backs." There are many indications that she has at last climbed out of the lowly rut of former defeats and under the efficient guidance of a new coaching system has found again the drive and power that were once her victorious characteristics. The grit of Yale is universally know; it is in our power on Saturday to make the Harvard fighting spirit equally famed. The same fighting spirit that has animated Harvard's sons on the blood-stained battlefields of Europe must be shown on the football field and in the stands...
...past it has been whispered that misfortune early in the game has left the Harvard stands weak and silent, and robbed the team of its power. This must not be the case on Saturday. We must show an indomitable spirit, the spirit that can turn a possible defeat into a victory. The man whose knocking knees are heard above his weak and faltering cheers has no place in the Harvard stands, and is unworthy of a Harvard victory. If the breaks of the game go against us, the team has the greater need of whole-hearted, enthusiastic support...