Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Grand Challenge Cup in 1839 at the Henley regatta July fourth, will be the guests of honor at a reception given by the members of the Union in the Living Room this evening at 7.30 o'clock. With this victory the Henley eight finished the season without a defeat, and tonight will be the first opportunity for the student body to honor these men for a notable performance. Though known as a second crew, it is doubtful if Harvard ever had a first eight which could have shown the way to the "Henley crew" at that distance. F. Richardson...
Yale meets the University of Maine in her first contest. The game will be watched with interest because of the unexpected defeat which the Blue eleven met from the hands of this same team last year...
...victorious type of football team. A difficult task confronts the coaches in choosing these eleven men. They must be qualified to work as a unit against the strongest opposition Harvard has yet known. Michigan, Princeton, Yale, and every other team on the schedule will battle their hardest to defeat us. It is in realization of this that we now send forth the ominous warning against over confidence. To heed it and give unwavering support to the team in the game today and in those to follow is the surest way we can strengthen our hopes of dedicating the new Yale...
...after easily winning the event for Junior eights, the seconds entered the race for Senior eights and won a close decision over the Union Boat Club and the Annapolis first crew, thus performing the remarkable feat of winning two races in a single day, and amply compensating for the defeat administered the University crew by Annapolis earlier in the season...
...returning to Cambridge, the three stern men, Lund, Curtis, and Parson, were shifted to the first boat. The crew came along well in the ten days proceeding the Cornell race but suffered defeat by a narrow margin...