Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...experience she gets from the practice pulls with professional crews. We shall try to make a respectable showing in July, and will do the best we can. Whatever secrecy has been observed in respect to the crew has been for the purpose of not assisting in our own defeat by giving our opponents the information of our doings. That is the reason why any secrecy at all has been kept. All other matters are open to inspection...
Yale beat Williams easily at New Haven, May 31, by the score, 10 - 3. On the same day the Harvard-Princeton game was played on Holmes. This game, perhaps the finest ever seen at Cambridge, needs no description to bring it to mind. This defeat, with the defeats suffered at the hands of Yale June 2 and 5, practically puts Princeton out of the race. The score in the first Yale-Princeton game was 9-8, and that in the second 12-2. In the latter game Princeton played poorly, making 21 errors. The game between Brown and Amherst...
...from satisfactory; but they have shown in the first game with Yale, what they can do under the influence of the ambitious aspirations caused by the presence and cheering of so many of their classmates, and there is little reason to doubt that they will make strenuous efforts to defeat the wearers of the blue in this coming game. Should eighty-nine win this second game, they will bring to Harvard an honor which she has not yet attained in the memory of undergraduates - that of defeating the Yale freshmen in both games. We trust that the freshmen will realize...
...well organized a nine as the "Peachblows," but the victory, if attained, will only reflect the more credit. The opponents of the CRIMSONS have proved themselves to be hard hitters and sharp fielders, but they will, we feel confident, be compelled to exercise their utmost skill and ingenuity to defeat the champions, if such a possibility may be attained...
...sorry that the News has seen fit to take exception to the result of Saturday's games, as nothing can be gained for Yale by that action, except a reputation for disgruntled acceptance of defeat...