Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heaviest batsman, Willard; while the majority of the names of Harvard players appear at the bottom of the list. McConkey, the weakest batsman of the Yale team, ranks ahead of six of Harvard's players. This lack of ability to bat may be considered the chief cause of our defeat last June...
Since the defeat of the freshman nine at New Haven the management has been making an effort to arrange another game with the Yale freshmen, hoping in this final test that the nine might retrieve its former misfortune, It declared itself ready to assume all the necessary expense, etc. The Yale men, however, refuse to make arrangements for another game on any considerations whatever...
Those who believe in "signs" are confident that the 'Varsity crew will win this year, as the Halcyon crew of St. Paul's have won, and their victory has always in the past been a forerunner of Yale's defeat on the water...
...Ernest W. W. Coolidge and Sam Winslow, Harvard ex-captains, were present, while ex-captain Bremner of Yale witnessed his nine's defeat from the Yale bench...
...brought together in competition, and we see two great bodies of students perpetually preparing for the struggle that is never decided. Every winter the long process of training is undergone cheerfully and perseveringly, and every spring and fall the representative teams meet to add one more victory or defeat to the records. Yet, notwithstanding the intense rivalry, the jubilation that follows victory and the deep chagrin that follows defeat, the relations between Harvard and Yale continue always cordial. There is behind the firm resolution to win, a feeling of mutual respect and hearty admiration that we think could hardly exist...