Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps in recent defeat it was an automaton whom the graduates wanted, a machine to produce for them winning teams, whatever the cost. Unable to keep faith under the change of fortune, they joined their voices with those of the outsiders who clamored for a great professional system at Harvard, for a coach to beat victory out of his players. They must have forgotten in the disappointment of the moment what Fisher had previously accomplished when such success was taken for granted...
...lose no word of protest ever came from the players themselves. If defeat crowned their efforts in place of victory, it was their fault and the fault of Harvard. They knew better than the outside world the man for whom they were staking Harvard's football reputation. Such confidence is the greatest tribute that a coach can receive. It is of the stuff which raises lost hopes and sends a team against Yale which will not be beaten...
...Cold figures show how superior was the Blue to the Crimson in every department of the game except that which calls for men to outdo themselves when faced by apparent defeat."--Burton Whitman, Boston Herald...
...frank to admit I expected a touchdown and anticipated a comeback on the part of the Blue athletes after their defeat by Princeton. . . . Harvard, however, braced and staged one of the most magnificent rallies I have ever seen on a football field."--Louis A. Young, Pennsylvania coach...
Potentially Yale's eleven is one of the strongest ever turned out at New Haven. A tremendous offensive, made possible by the great charge of the line and the speed and weight of the backs, has given the Blue many touchdowns. Even while doing down to defeat before Pennsylvania and Princeton, Yale was able to score a pair of touchdowns on each occasion...