Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University crew was defeated by Cornell in the two-mile race of Lake Cayuga on Saturday afternoon, by the distance of about six lengths. Severe as the defeat was, it was due not to poor rowing on the part of the University eight, but rather to the remarkable form and power displayed by the Cornell crew...
Poor work on the bases at critical moments was responsible for the defeat of the Harvard second baseball team, 4 to 3, by the Lawrence High School team at Lawrence yesterday afternoon. The fact that Harvard made more hits, fewer errors, and had eleven men left on bases goes to show that the game was quite unsatisfactory. In the ninth inning the score might have been tied but for the poor base running. Boyle and Macdonald pitched for Harvard...
With bands playing, pennanis waving, people cheering, the second of the annual baseball contests between the CRIMSON and the Yale News finished in a whirl of dust on Saturday. In the ninth the dauntless sons of the CRIMSON snatched themselves from defeat by a two-run batting rally, and in the eleventh pushed themselves to the pedestal of victory by pounding in four more tallies, a lead which the News fought vainly to out down. The final score, 10 to 9. tells the story. The CRIMSON had only one regret and that was in taking the game from hosts...
...meet its deadliest yet worthiest rival in an effort to continue the clean sweep which 1916 teams have so far had over Yale 1916. Track followers announce that the meet will be close, and perhaps whole-hearted support or lack of it will account for a victory or a defeat...
...Yale Field tomorrow morning at 10.30 o'clock. The CRIMSON team, fifteen strong, will leave at various times today, some at one time, others at another; but every one of the sterling ball tossers on the sheet will be on hand tomorrow morning to administer the usual crushing defeat to the strong but not strong enough Newsy nine. Special trains will leave the South Station every other minute today to accommodate the huge Harvard and Boston crowds that expect to attend this most unique of the season's struggles on the diamond...