Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accurate comment on the Yale-Harvard Game must needs be a reminder of the obvious. More than half a century of athletic relationships have demonstrated to the public as well as to Harvard and Yale men the defeat of true sportsmanship...
Here is one contest where defeat carries no sting and victory produces no conceit. As a consequence the game is much the same in prospect as in retrospect. The teams go on the field and the spectators enter the stadium with enthusiasm unalloyed by the distaste of defeat which so often provides a disagreeable undercurrent of repression. All are aware that the afternoon's game holds no potential ruin of the evening's pleasure...
...millions they killed and maimed, showed no contriteness for the anguish and sufferings they caused to tens of millions of people throughout the length and breadth of the world. Neither did they heed the ninth anniversary of the end of their own Wartime sufferings; the bitterness of defeat lay heavily upon them...
...Saturday afternoon another Harvard team met another Yale defeat. To the general public the fact will probably mean just that: another lost game for Harvard, and one more instance of its gridiron decline. To all Harvard men, however,--and to all Yale men who were in the Stadium that afternoon--it will mean much more; it will mean that another Harvard team lived up to the fighting standards of previous Harvard teams, refusing to be influenced by predicted scores and ceasing to play the game only at the final whistle...
...when the last man, woman, and child is drawn to Stadium or Bowl. A game, by all the word implies, includes elements of chance and presupposes the desire to win. Games are played to the won, which has nothing at all to do with the effect of victory or defeat. After the game the competition is over, and the content for superiority, not the goal, is its reward. Over a long period of years Harvard and Yale have engaged in athletic competition. In that time the two universities have engaged in a rivalry intense and fierce and withal the most...