Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...squad has been in hard scrimmage all week and on Wednesday afternoon played a practice game with Everett High. The team has improved steadily since last Saturday's defeat at the hands of the strong Worcester Academy team when Coolidge, Canfield, and Flower were seriously injured. Captain Flower's injuries are not so serious as was thought and he will be in the game before long...
With last Saturday's defeat behind the University team, and Princeton and Yale ahead, today's game is going to be fought hard from beginning to end. The real calibre of the team will be laid bare. The Cornell defeat, taken by itself, is inconclusive. Any team is likely to fall into a mid-season slump, be taken unawares, or be in an immature stage of development, and so meet with an unexpected reversal. The University will not take any chances with today's game, however, and a defeat at the hands of Penn. State cannot be explained...
...Stellwagen 4L. won the University championship singles tournament by defeating R. C. Rand '19, 6-3, 6-3, 6-8, 6-4 on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon. In the first set Rand's failure to pass Stellwagen at the net accounted for his defeat. Although the score of the second set was the same as the first, the games were closer and Rand seemed better able to adapt himself to his opponent's play. Stellwagen ran the score of the next set up to 5-2, Rand being puzzled by his twisting serve. Stellwagen took the first two points...
...have the upper hand. Wilkinson, the brilliant halfback of the Orange eleven, was in a great measure responsible for his team's victory, for in the long series of rushes which resulted in the long score, he carried the ball on almost every play. In spite of their defeat, the Brown players showed great power, and it is doubtful whether the University can again afford to send in a substitute line-up against them...
Saturday's defeat has accomplished one thing which years of victory could scarcely attain. There is an instinct for men to stand together in adversity which is lacking in success, and every Harvard man who has previously felt only a complacent interest in the team is now backing it heart and soul. It is defeat which shows the true calibre of men, and the grit and fighting qualities showed by Captain Mahan and his team in Saturday's game have brought them out of the contest more respected, if such a thing is possible, than they were before the game...