Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...John H. Storer '82, father of the present football captain, will give a dinner to all the men who won their "H" Saturday against Yale at the Somerset Club next Monday evening at 8 o'clock. The dinner is in honor of the first team to defeat Yale in the Stadium...
...cross-country team made good use of its second chance at Yale Saturday. Between second place and eighth there is a satisfying difference. The sting of the New Haven defeat has within two weeks been partially removed. The showing of the team as a contestant for intercollegiate honors has reflected great credit on the College. Little more could be asked...
Battered down by the unparalleled endurance of Harvard's team and bewildered by the unerring accuracy of Harvard's drop-kicker, Yale has tasted defeat in the Stadium. Every man in whose veins flows Crimson blood rejoices in the triumph of the 1913 University football team. Never was a cleaner, harder, or more finished game of football seen on any field, than that of the team which Saturday indelibly wrote its name in Harvard history. The spectacle of that eleven, outplaying Yale at almost every moment, backed by the enthusiasm of ten thousand Harvard men, was the climax...
...Crimson takes the responsibility of giving to the team of 1913, as from Harvard undergraduates, a vote of deep gratitude for what it accomplished. To Coach Haughton we give our thanks for a service of six years which have been marred by but a single defeat by Yale and have seen three Harvard victories over her greatest rival. Seniors, who have never, as undergraduates, seen a defeat at the hands of the Blue, realize through what an enviable four years they have lived: Sophomores, who have seen nothing but Crimson triumphs, must feel a spirit of Harvard stealing over them...
...Yale; it is little consolation to say that hers was a game fight against a better team. Harvard, however, appreciates the fairness of her play, her fierce, though vain, attempts to square old scores, and above all the fighting spirit with which the team and its supporters accepted defeat...