Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman nine plays Andover. All the Ninety men who can possibly do so should accompany the team and give it support. Andover has a strong nine, and will make a good fight for victory. The majority of the freshman class have lost all faith in the nine, since its defeat by Yale. The nine has worked hard, and until the next game with Yale deserves the hearty support and encouragement of the class. Victory or defeat at New Haven depend in a great measure on the success of the nine...
...performance of the Freshman nine at Amherst on Saturday was not a very creditable one. The Amherst Freshman nine is reported as being very good and it is not the defeat that we refer to so much as the lack of energy that has been displayed since the Harvard game. The nine is entitled to a great deal of credit for their work at Harvard, but they must understand that their recent victory does not end their work. They have defeated Harvard once and won the "fence," and several of the men seem to think that that is sufficient...
...nine. Although I heartily coinside with your correspondents of yesterday and the day before in condemning the action of the nine's supporters, still I see no reason why the members or any member of the nine itself should be run drown, simply because they did not succeed in defeating their opponents. I suppose it is natural for a nine to be condemned because it has suffered reverses; it is an almost universal, though most unfair, custom. But I see no reason why any particular man should be blamed because he failed to bring victory from almost sure defeat...
...hundred spectators watched Harvard defeat Cornell yesterday afternoon by the score...
What appears more disgraceful than the defeat is the "muckerish" way in which certain undergraduates attempted to win the game by yelling. Yesterday we had occasion to call attention to the evil which was creeping into the class games. Now, in an intercollegiate contest, Harvard has been reduced to the level which has always been the object of scorn and contempt heretofore, and deserves to remain so. It is much to be regretted that, besides those who supported the nine, there were men on the team itself, whose conduct eminently ill-fitted the occasion. The fresh man nine...