Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although played on even terms for the greater part of the game, the Freshman Hockey team was able to defeat a scrappy Belmont Hill School sextet 5-1 yesterday afternoon at the Garden on the strength of three goals in the first seven minutes of play...
Fresh from a 5-4 overtime defeat of Princeton last Saturday, the Terriers are out to draw their second taste of Big Three blood and promise to provide a busy evening for the Crimson. On the other hand the Stubbsmen are smarting from their defeat by the Olympics Tuesday night and will be out to redeem themselves. Greater reserve strength would seem to make Harvard the favorite in tonight's encounter...
Handicapped by squarer and wider courts than they have been accustomed to playing on, a fighting Yardling squash team went down to a 3 to 2 defeat Saturday at Concord before the on-slaught of a strong St. Paul's outfit...
...mean choice did California make, however. It chose a great Alabama team coached by Frank Thomas who was Knute Rockne's quarterback at Notre Dame in 1921-22. This choice gives California a chance to defeat a university which in four previous appearances in the Rose Bowl has never been defeated. An earnest of a thrilling game on New Year's Day is Alabama's 1937 record. Undefeated and untied this season, Alabama scored 225 points to 20 for its nine opponents, won the last three (from Tulane, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt) by scoring in the last five...
...though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began to cloud her statesmanship. It is his sober opinion that she helped Antony's defeat at Actium because she feared that victory would result in his going off with a younger woman...