Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Since the defeat of last Saturday there has been a week of stiff practice and the forward line, which was the weak point in the first game, has been given some rigid training in passing and team work by Coach Burgess. With this line greatly improved and the good defence of last week still intact, the team as a whole should prove strong in today's contest...
...University soccer team was defeated by the Hopedale team on Saturday afternoon by the score of 4 to 2. The defeat was clearly due to the inability of the forward line to play together. The forwards were too scattered, presenting an open line through which the Milford team could press the ball to the defence; and their lack of team work prevented consistent rushing down the field. The defence, on the other hand, played with more apparent knowledge of team work, stopping most of their opponents' rushes brilliantly. Francke's work in this department of the game was especially effective...
After last year football season, it may seem incongruous to have any defeat ranking in our minds But no man who was in College two years ago can ever forget the Princeton victory of that year. It cost us something then and has cost us more since. At that time one of the cries that was heard the loudest be moaned the absence of any sort of support for the team from what were supposed to be the Harvard stands. To avoid a repetition of such a failure this fall, men interested in the matter have secured a reduction...
...Freshman football team had its last practice yesterday afternoon before the first game at Groton today. After a long preliminary drill and signal practice, teams A and B lined up against each other. Team A revenged itself for its defeat of Monday by making 6 points on an end run by Coolidge, against 3 points scored on a drop-kick by Gesumskey of team...
...gone forth to rally every effort for this year's team. Now with a squad that has done all the ground work that counts for so much as the season advances, Yale under the direction of her best football minds is working with one end in view, to defeat Harvard on November 22. She does not care much about her early games; she has learned that the best teams are those developed slowly. Last year Yale had the best material in the country. She failed to utilize it and she failed to make it into a team. But this year...