Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cornell vividly in mind, a close and hard struggle is assured. The fact that Coach Haughton has had complete charge of the team for the last two weeks will be evident during the very first period of this afternoon's game. Moreover, Harvard's football team never forgets a defeat. These two factors will play an important part in convincing our fiends from Ithaca that two consecutive victories are more easily prophesied than...
...University of Virginia, fresh from a 21-to-0 victory over Richmond College, was, barely beaten by Georgia in a hot, closely-contested game. This defeat, the first Georgia has been able to inflict in four years, was somewhat lessened by the appearance of Thurman, Virginia's veteran punter, who reported for practice at the beginning of the week, and who got into the game for a few minutes in the second half. His addition to the squad should be a decided strengthening of its defense, for he got off his usual long punts Saturday...
...special scholarship funds are on the whole giving and excellent account of themselves. Elsewhere we have had something to say of the fallacy of imagining that high grades achieved in college are always a sure measure of students capabilities. Yet nothing argued on this score can go to defeat the practical truth that men who achieve fairly good rating in college are so acquiring about the most tangible evidence of sincere purpose and consistent work which they could possibly return to the men who are generously paying the expenses of their education. Evidently also the Harvard Clubs of the country...
Such men as Mahan and Brickley were our Caesars and our generals. With them victory became synonomous with contest. Those were our palmy days when undergraduates sat in the Stadium with a feeling of assurance that defeat was outside the realm of probability...
...Haven. Enthusiastic, interested cheering may seem of small value to certain lazy individuals, but the men who know and appreciate this form of encouragement are the players. At the crucial moment, when the enemy is threatening our goal line, a ringing cheer, with its instant, psychological effect, often turns defeat into victory...