Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David C. Campbell '02, thrice All-American end who captained the 1901 football team that climaxed a season of 12 straight victories with a 22 to 0 defeat of Yale, said yesterday that in his opinion the wide-open game is superior to the old game of mass formations and "quarterback under...
...second game of the afternoon Adams House, the chief contenders for the title last year, absorbed their second straight defeat at the hands of Leverett, losing...
...only unhappy feature of the day from a California standpoint," says the Times, "was Yale's surprising defeat by Harvard. It has been reliably reported before to-day's game that Berkeley authorities intended to send Yale the Rose Bowl bid this evening. But the Harvards spoiled all this...
...reason of its star, Clint Frank, and a season without defeat, Yale was top-heavy favorite to whip Harvard, which had been beaten by Dartmouth and Army. The equalizing factor was that Harvard had beaten Princeton, and the only thing Harvard would rather do than beat Yale or Princeton is beat them both. It had not done so since 1915. Harvard drew first blood in the second quarter when Ray Daughters caught a forward pass and shook off two Yale tacklers, scored. In the next quarter Yale got moving, and the great Frank bounced off the Yale line...
...beating Hahvahd (often vulgarly referred to as Harvard) 6-to-0, but her other triumphs were impressive . . . That year Centre had one of her seven undefeated, untied seasons (a "2-U" season as it were) . . . Centre was the fourth Southern team to play Hahvahd and only the first to defeat Hahvahd...