Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University's credit. The year has been one of early reverses uphill fighting, and final triumph in more than one branch of athletics. The overwhelming success of the football team last fall after unparalleled accidents testified to an indomitable fighting spirit. The track team retrieved a close defeat by Cornell by winning from Yale. And now Coach Haughton, taking charge in mid-season of a baseball team which had already lost its captain, has led it to triumph. With the victory from Yale in hockey and those in several of the minor sports, there wants only a favorable communique from...
...game record for the season is .777, for out of the twenty-seven contests played only six have been lost. Of those six only the defeat by Brown is of real significance, for omitting the champion Braves, the other teams have since been put out of the running...
University major and minor sport teams have met Yale in thirteen different branches of athletics during the present college year, and have been victories in ten of them. Yale's three victories were gained by the gymnastic, wrestling, and fencing teams, but the latter defeat was atoned for, when the University fencers defeated Yale in the intercollegiate meet, finishing two places ahead of their rivals. The gymnastic teams did not have a separate meet, but Yale won the intercollegiate meet, while the University team took only sixth place...
Yale's 2 to 1 victory over Princeton at Princeton on Saturday sets the title for intercollegiate honors in baseball squarely between the University and Yale, for Princeton's defeat places the Tigers hopelessly out of the running. Way of Yale was in great form, allowing but three singles, while his team mates found Deyo for five singles, two doubles and a triple...
...match with Pennsylvania, scheduled for May 21, had to be cancelled on account of rain. On May 25, Princeton took 7 of the 9 matches. The game had been postponed twice, and the University players had had no practice to keep them in form. Williams made up for his defeat in the intercollegiates last year, however, by beating G. M. Church, Princeton's captain, 7-5, 6-0. Rand also won, defeating Van Deventer, 6-2, 11-9, in the singles...