Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Having experienced for many years an Augustan age of undisputed empery, Harvard is in a less proud but trebly adventurous age of barbarian invasion. It is hard for a team that has known four defeats within more than twice that number of years to fall before a supposedly unimportant antagonist. Defeat after victory is always hard. Nevertheless it is inevitable. It is humiliating for great empires when little Vandal tribes tear down their ancient temples. But Caesars perish and the relentless foe creeps...
...early-season defeat will never cause us to lose hope of victories in the future; in fact a defeat such as the football team sustained on Saturday will undoubtedly prove to be a great factor in victories to come, for it dispells the feeling of over-confidence that is bound to follow a season as glorious as last year's, and it brings us to the realization that a defeat is quite possible--even to a Harvard eleven...
...University football team suffered their first defeat of the season, the fifth in nine years, when Tufts secured a 7 to 3 victory in the Stadium Saturday afternoon. An effective combination of the forward and lateral passes, which the University team could not solve, a smoothness and perfection in running plays, as well as unusually good team work, were responsible for the outcome. Only once did the University team show any real form or power, and that was in the third period when they stopped the drive of the Tufts eleven, and held them for four downs inside their...
...make up vacancies in two teams as the other colleges in one. From this distance it looks as if Harvard could not best Cornell with her material, but might with her coaching system. Princeton ought to win from Harvard on the strength of her experienced men, and Yale defeat Harvard through the exceptional individuals she has to mould into a team. Yale may be handicapped a bit through the change in her systems. As the season progresses the situation often changes through injuries or for other reaons, 'and a fortnight hence the Harvard position may or may not improve...
...Although Yale expected defeat at the hands of most of her minor college rivals last fall, no fear was felt that Carnegie. Tech will humiliate the team here tomorrow. On the basis of scoring shown by the Eli team the past week, it should score three times tomorrow. The Yak rush line has not yet shown steadiness enough to predict a Carnegie Tech white washing...