Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over Dartmouth the previous Saturday. Three hits were all the safe blows that the Brunonians collected off the delivery of Cutts and Booth, while the Crimson attack smashed out 8 hits and annexed 5 runs. A tendency on the part of Cutts to issue bases on balls almost spelled defeat for the University, the home team garnering 5 runs in a hectic seventh inning. The Crimson finally won a 7 to 5 decision...
...crew looked better Saturday, than it has for a long time. Holding the Navy crew to a three-and-a-half length margin was a lent performed by no other crew this season, and at the same time Captain Winthrop's eight took ample revenge on M.I.T. for its defeat the week before. The Cornell crew, the surprise of Saturday's regatta, did a good job and forced the Crimson boat to the finish. Harvard as usual rowed a long slow stroke, and locked like a four-mile crew, an encouraging sign with only the Yale race ahead...
Three Harvard net teams left the courts on Saturday with feathers of victory over Yale safely in their caps. The University tennis team took the Elis into camp on the Divinity Courts by a score of 8 to 1, and so completed a season marred by only one defeat, that at the hands of the Princeton players, winners of the Big Three title...
...University baseball team won both of its week end games, thus putting an end to its losing streak that had extended for five straight games. In one of the biggest upsets of the current baseball season the Crimson played errorless ball behind Barbee's fine pitching to defeat Princeton at Princeton on Saturday, 5 to 0. Yesterday, playing in Providence, the Harvard outfit downed Brown, recent conqueror of Dartmouth, by a score of 7 to 5. The Second team and the Freshman nine, closing their seasons in New Haven against Yale on Saturday, did less well, both teams losing...
...been a Quartermaster Captain in the Civil War, a Cavalry Colonel, had stormed Missionary Ridge, had fought with Jeb Stuart in the battle in which the latter was killed, had beaten General Early in the Shenandoah Valley, had had his famous 20 miles to Cedar Creek to turn defeat to victory, had been at Appomattox Court House, had commanded in the Southwest after the war, had fought the Indians, had gone to Germany and observed the war of 1870, before in 1874 he took to wife a charming little brunette, just out of school, the daughter, sister, wife...