Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent article in the Illustrated, a Sophomore declares that the defeat of the Freshman football team at New Haven this year was due to the failure of Freshman interdormitory athletics. The team lost because the Yale freshmen had better football material than the Harvard Freshmen. The heaviest man in the Freshman line weighed barely 190 pounds, while the average of the Yale line from tackle to tackle was well over 200 pounds. Harvard's best backfield men were all injured early in the game. These two contributing factors have, unfortunately, been overlooked by the Sophomore who wrote the article...
...second hockey team went down to an 8 to 0 defeat at the hands of the fast St. Paul's School seven at Concord, N. H., last Saturday afternoon. The score would undoubtedly have been larger had it not been for the excellent work of Stanton at goal who made a number of difficult stops. The school team showed much greater speed and possessed a better knowledge of the fine points of the game. The second team was unable to take advantage of several chances to score and St. Paul's goal was seldom in danger. Brown and Lombard played...
...call has ben sent out for more men in winter track. Now is the time when next season's victory or defeat will be decided. Remember this, when deciding whether to put so small a share of time on so worthy a cause...
...league game on November 6, and came through with a 1 to 1 tie. So it was at Ithaca on November 9, when it played Cornell in a hard snow-storm, the score being again 1 to 1. On November 14, however, the team suffered its first and only defeat, Pennsylvania winning by the score...
...defeating Princeton by a score of 2 to 1 on Saturday the University of Pennsylvania association football team made sure of the championship of the Intercollegiate soccer league, although several games still remain to be played. Pennsylvania now has nine points, having won four games, tied one and lost none, as by the scoring system a victory counts two, a tie one, and a defeat nothing. Cornell and Harvard are next with six points each, but as the University has but one more game to play and Cornell's season is finished, neither have any chance of overtaking the leader...