Word: defeat
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Seven clean-cut victories and not one defeat were the results of the University's athletic contests on Saturday. For the first time in a long period, the University was victorious in every contest entered. The victories were as follows: Relay team at Penn. Relay Carnival defeated Princeton and Pennsylvania, time within one second of world's record; Freshman track team won from Andover, 61 1-2 to 34 1-2; University baseball team defeated Vermont, 10 to 1; second baseball team beat Groton, 1 to 0; Freshman baseball team beat St. Mark's, 9 to 3; University tennis team...
Individual honors in the tourney were won by Louis Monquin, captain of the Columbia University fencing team, with an exceptionally good score. Monquin registered fourteen victories and had only one defeat throughout the three sessions of fencing. Captain W. H. Russell '18 was the only contestant who succeeded in mastering Monquin, defeating him in one of the afternoon contests by a score of 18 to 17. Russell secured fourth place for the University in the individual honors, while G. H. Code '18 won fifth place...
...discussion of the merits of a question to which it attaches such importance, the CRIMSON would at least take pains to verify the facts advanced by it to support its arguments. When it states that "last year Captain Murray . . . was generally blamed by the rowing authorities for the defeat of the University crew at the hands of Yale" it makes a statement that is as unjust as it is untrue. As a matter of fact no other captain in the past few years has received such whole-hearted support and confidence from the rowing authorities, and no thought was further...
...finished with the lowest percentage of all the competing colleges. Although the material was inexperienced, by the end of the season it was above the mediocre. The thing that caused the deplorable record was delay in rounding the team into form. Only lack of confidence from previous consistency in defeat excused the loss of the last games, which were closely contested. If the team had mastered the rudiments of soccer before the beginning of its schedule, instead of at its end, its record might have been different...
...opportunity for physical development to men who are not large enough for football and crew, or fast enough for track, it is important to the athletic system. Two years ago it produced for the football team one of the best half-backs that have ever helped in the defeat of Yale and Princeton. In order to be able to devote fall practice to the finer points of the game, men who expect to play soccer must learn the fundamentals...