Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy Cross first-year men are reputed to have a strong team, but the Crimson-clad aggregation has improved steadily, and has attained to a machine-like co-ordination in both attack and defense that bespeaks great possibilities. Last week, in handing a 22 to 0 defeat to Worcester Academy, the Freshmen were not obliged to kick once, so perfect was their throttling of the schoolboy attack...
...Freshman runners will encounter the Engineer first year team preliminary to the main event. The 1930 runners are expected to defeat M. I. T. with expected ease as a result of their one-sided triumph against Dartmouth last week...
...understand how sharply football differs from other games one has only to glance at the Harvard record for the current season. It has been less than four weeks since Harvard was defeated by Geneva, a college of little football reputation, and less than three weeks since it was defeated by Holy Cross, a college surely not of the first rank. Yet, under the tutelage of one Horween, Harvard had learned enough football by Saturday to defeat Dartmouth, which was said to have one of the best teams in the country. Could such a change be wrought in a baseball team...
...begins at home. If the larger colleges of the East can maintain sobriety and sense in their athletic contests, if they can realize that football in its place is excellent, but that the place is limited, then there need be no disturbance about "over emphasis", in victory or in defeat...
...have liked to get twice as many an twice the price, if necessary. Thousands will swarm from the byways and hedges to see two and twenty players fight over a little leather ball. They will expect great things. A single mistake may decide the game. One error may mean defeat. But what of it, our friend across the water asks. There is yet some joy in life. What remains of life does not at once look bleak and dreary to an English 'varsity man if he happens to drop a ball. Nor does he feel eternally disgraced if, by mischance...