Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman swimming, team will meet Worcester Academy at Worcester this evening at 7.30 o'clock. With four victories and two defeats, the 1919 team has been steadily improving and should show its best form in the contest to-night. Worcester Academy will enter the meet with its swimmers in top form, having gone through the season so far without a defeat...
There is every reason to believe that the team will make a good showing in the matches, for the decisive defeat of Bowdoin last week showed that the material is above the average this year...
...athletic system to the needs and opportunities of the new dormitories. Dean Briggs, in his report as chairman of the Athletic Committee, analyzes the alternatives under four heads. There is first the possibility of the system which obtained in the 1914 football season, the "one-sided competition" which brought defeat at the hands of the Yale freshmen. The University Freshmen were at a disadvantage in having their team chosen from interdormitory teams without sufficient practice as a unit. Victory is, of course, not an end in itself; but human nature is so constituted that the prospect of victory is needed...
...Freshman swimming team will meet the Brookline High School team in the latter's pool this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The 1919 swimmers have shown up very satisfactorily so far, having suffered but one defeat--last week at the hands of the exceptional Huntington School team. Captain Jackson and Hubbard have been the Freshmen's bes point-winners. The following are entered: W. C. Hubbard, Captain R. E. Jackson, M. H. Leonard, K. Merrick, B McNear, A. I. Smith, C. U. Shreve, F. S. Swayze, S. H. Wirt...
...hockey team went down to its first defeat of the season before the St. Nicholas Club of New York in the game played at the Arena on Saturday evening. The 5 to 2 victory of the New York team was due in great part to the playing of the former Princeton star, "Hobey" Baker, together with the clever and opportune stick-work of his teammate, Ellis, who scored three of the five goals. The B. A. A. seven suffered through lack of team-work, which prevented its most sensational player, Skilton, from shooting as many goals as he otherwise might...