Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next season Harvard sent out the strongest team which had yet represented her, and this nine met the Yale team on July 5, 1870. The club went on the field with great confidence, but played its poorest game, and barely escaped defeat. The score in this game was: Harvard, 24; Yale...
Although Columbia had no 'varsity eleven this fall, a great deal of interest was taken in foot-ball. Class teams were formed, and every day the men went up to the polo grounds to practice. An inter class series of games was arranged, and on November 30th the freshmen defeated the sophomores by a score of 12 to 8. This defeat of '91 was a great surprise to all, and was principally due to the excellent work of the freshmen backs. On the same days the juniors played the seniors, and easily won by a score of 30-0. This...
...account of the unfortunate but necessary abandonment of the 'varsity game, the college had to rely on the freshmen to uphold Harvard's reputation against a Yale team, and their confidence was not misplaced for '92 gave Yale a crushing defeat...
...good eleven. The Harvards played their game with the Princetons on the grounds of the latter, and not on neutral territory, as was the case with the Princeton and Yale game. There was therefore no chance of comparison under equal conditions. If Yale felt as sure of defeating Harvard as it pretended, why did the Yale management not consent to the playing of an exhibition game, which would count as nothing even in case of defeat? No, Yale did not care to take any chances...
...only are lacking and it seems to us that in the present state of college feeling, the raising of such funds would not be a difficult matter. We all desire to see Harvard in athletics restored to her old position in the foremost rank of American colleges. Each successive defeat pushes us further from the front and if we do not desire to see in the spring one more victory added to Yale's already long list, we must place our crew in a position where it can struggle with Yale on equal terms...