Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both teams have excellent records to date and the indications are for a very close contest. On the basis of comparative scores the two teams seem to be very evenly matched. Holy Cross having administered an 11 to 1 defeat to the Exeter nine, while the schoolboys bowed to the Crimson first year men by a 12 to 1 score...
Last year Barbee met both of these Crusader hurlers in two games and toppled them to defeat, the second contest, between Dobens and the Harvard right-hander, going to 14 innings...
...Dean Academy baseball team went down to defeat before the slugging Second University nine yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field by a 3 to 1 score. The Crimson forces bunched their hits in timely fashion to collect the winning run in the fourth frame. K. W. Crotty '29 led the University attack with a well placed single and a long triple in the final inning...
...University lacrosse combination suffered defeat at the hands of the Pennsylvania twelve. Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field, by a 5 to 3 score. Despite the fact that the Harvard team has won only one game this year out of seven played, the Crimson forces showed the best form of the season...
...feared, a very staunch Democrat. Merely because Governor Smith rolled up a few thousand more votes in the California primaries than he did, the Senator has withdrawn from the presidential race. He does not seem to realize that unless he becomes quite accustomed to defeat he can be no true follower of William Jennings Bryan, who was not discouraged after four attempts at the presidency. Indeed, the recent triumphs of Harding "normalcy" and Coolidge economy have made the Democratic donkey drink very deeply of the bitter waters, and for Senator Walsh to despair after merely one reverse shows appalling ignorance...