Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Graduate Schools Basketball League competition is getting fiercer as the end of the season approaches. Law I leads the league by a wide margin, but suffered its first defeat of the season yesterday afternoon at the hands of Law III. The game was fast and hard-fought throughout and at the final whistle the league leaders found themselves on the short end of a 30 to 21 score...
Columbia's conqueror, M.I.T., will meet the University team next Friday evening in the first contest of the New England semi-finals of the Intercollegiate championship. Yale and Dartmouth will be the other contestants. The only defeat that the University swordsmen have met with was at the hands of the Saltus Club of New York. No college team has yet been able to overcome them. West Point and Pennsylvania have been vanquished by both of this afternoon's competitors, while Columbia has taken Yale into camp and the Harvard fencers have decisively defeated Princeton...
...brothers who made Harvard football history in 1915, 1916, 1919, and 1920 and who immortalized the so-called Horween toe. In 1919 Arnold Horween played fullback for the team that tied the Tiger 10-10 and downed Yale 10-3, the team that journeyed to Pasadena, California, to defeat Oregon 7-6 on January 1, 1920. Horween captained the eleven his Senior year, again tying Princeton and topping Yale...
This is the first defeat suffered by the Freshmen thus far, they having won easily in their first two starts...
Clem Shaver, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee chosen by John W. Davis in 1924, appeared last week unobtrusively in Washington. He was preparing the party organization for the Congressional campaign next fall. The National Democratic Headquarters, which he stripped of almost all its employes after Mr. Davis' defeat, is being enlarged. Richard T. Buchanan of Indiana was appointed publicity director. Mr. Shaver is expected shortly to announce that the Democratic debt of $200,000 left over from the last campaign has been wiped...