Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...useless for us to try to award sufficient praise to the University nine. Their hard and patient work has been crowned by signal triumph. They have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. They have played and won the hardest up-hill game in the steadiest manner possible. Time after time an error in one of these last five innings would have defeated us; but our nine never faltered for an instant, was never nervous or confused, and always did the right thing. Well, the most exciting game the association ever chronicled is over, and after our wild rejoicings...
...college had supposed that the possibility that the freshman nine could defeat Yale in the freshman series would inspire the team to make an honest, if a late endeavor, to play ball. But this supposition has proved baseless. The present freshman nine is, without exception, the least determined of any of the prominent college teams. The captain, in loyalty to his class, ought to require that every man under him should do his utmost to further the efficiency of his team, or at once withdraw from it. It is a disgrace to the crimson that it is worn...
...annual Signet base-ball game came off on the Common yesterday afternoon. The juniors inflicted an overwhelming defeat upon the seniors. Score - 42 to 5, Base hits - '87 Signet, 21 with a total of 28; '86 Signet, 9 with a total of 9. Errors...
...final game in the preliminary series of the Amateur Championship contest was played yesterday, when the Oxfords met with a decisive defeat at the hands of the Peachblows. The final series will be played between the Baby Ansons, Peachblows, and CRIMSON. The score of yesterday's game was as follows...
Last Saturday the Harvard cricket eleven was defeated by the Lowells; this is their second game and second defeat this season. If the cricket club wishes to win another championship for Harvard, it will have to take a decided brace and go to work in a more systematic way than it has been doing so far. The captain, or his representative, ought to see that the eleven and substitutes are out punctually every afternoon. The training of these men should be the first thing seen to; they should be given plenty of opportunity to bat, and the best bowlers should...