Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Freshman association football team will play Andover on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Freshman team has been improving rapidly since its defeat by Prospect Union. The forward line has bettered its team-work and the shooting is much more accurate than it was last week. The defence is also strong, Lucas and Myers playing well in their positions...
...Yale football squad has just passed through the most strenuous week of the season, beginning on Monday with the reorganization of the coaching system and ending up on Saturday with a 3 to 0 defeat at the hands of Brown, which showed nevertheless an improved team and a marked change in spirit...
...Saturday Yale lost for the fourth time this season to one of the smaller colleges. Brown winning by the score of 3 to 0. It was not, however, the fact that another defeat has been added to Yale's list that was as discouraging to Yale as that Shevlin and all the other coaches who have been called in to help the team, appear to have accomplished little in improving the team's actual scoring power. It must be remembered, however, that the new system has only had a few days trial, and a different quality of football...
...previous standing of both those elevens places Colgate below the first three. The University's victory over Princeton eliminates the Tiger's claim to the championship. Cornell's claim is perhaps the most convincing, and it is likely to stand unchallenged, for it is hardly probable that Penn. will defeat Harvard's vanquishers. The Crimson was in a different stage of development when Cornell came to the Stadium; and Cornell's otherwise easy schedule greatly lessens the strength of her claim. The championship, then, resolves itself down to two teams--Cornell and Harvard. A defeat for either of these teams...
coupled with the poor offense work of the University players was the chief factor in the University's defeat. The poor offensive, however, was partially offset by the effective work of the University's defense men, who managed to keep the score down within reasonable limits...