Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present Yale series, the University baseball team has had one of the most successful seasons known in the history of the sport at Harvard. With only fair material to start with, the nine has by sound and conservative playing gone through a schedule of 24 games with but three defeats and one tie. The World's Champions Red Sox, the Army and the Navy, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Tufts; these are of the more important teams which have been defeated. Of the set-backs, Catholic University has since been beaten by nines inferior to the Crimson, Brown merely broke...
Southern Trip Brought First Defeat...
...annual Spring southern trip, which brought forth the first set-back, began on Saturday, April 15, when Mahan defeated the Army's star pitcher, Neyland, by a score of 2 to 1. Charlottesville, Va., was the next stop on the itinerary, and here the University fought out a long 2 to 2 tie with Virginia. The Navy went down to a 4 to 3 defeat with Whitney twirling, but the game was won for Harvard at the expense of losing Wyche, who tore a ligament in his ankle and has been unavailable since. Mahan met a tartar at Washington...
...score, and also the last of the University's string of 12 straight victories. Garritt and Harrison were unable to hold Brown in check, and the Providence college had the pleasure of seeing an 8 to 1 atonement for the first game and for its defeat at home in 1915. Pitcher Young, of Williams, had two bad innings at the start of the game on June 1, and lost by a 2 to 0 score in a contest which was otherwise very close. On Saturday, the Tigers came to town and left after having lost the series by losing...
...comparison of the University, Yale and Cornell shows that in the major sports Cornell has two championships to her credit, while the University has one. Yale must defeat the University in both the baseball series and the crew race to prevent it from taking these titles, provided the latter wins on the diamond this week. In the minor sports all three have their share of the honors...