Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some comment has been made upon the freshman game at Southboro which may lead the freshmen to feel their position with reference to foot-ball rather desperate. Nothing has been more familiar in past years than for our freshman foot-ball elevens and base-ball nines to encounter defeat at the outset. How familiar to us have grown such phrases as "freshmen rattled," "wretched game," "decided brace," etc. It is the custom for freshman teams to feel defeat. They need it. But to draw too hopeless a conclusion from defeat is not the means to accomplish a necessary...
...fully up to the average, even if it does not go beyond it. We are sure, then, that the athletes of eighty-nine can give us an exhibition at their coming sports which shall at the same time reflect credit upon their class, and remove all apprehensions of future defeat in track athletics...
...handful of shivering spectators witnessed the game of yesterday afternoon, and were rewarded by seeing the crimson meet with defeat. Of our last year's 'varsity nine only one man, Wiestling, played in his regular position, and four new faces were to be seen on the team, those of Choate, Holden, Bingham and Young. With such a nine it could be hardly expected that a strong showing would be made, and the victory of the Cambridge team did not greatly surprise those who were present...
...degree disorganized the twelve, yet the number of good players in college is sufficiently large to furnish a strong team, which, by earnest training, may be brought into form sufficiently to represent fittingly the university in the proposed game. To expect the twelve to defeat the visiting team is almost idle, for the Montreal Club has, it is said, the strongest team in America. What we do expect is that the crimson will put into the field a twelve capable of giving a worthy exposition of the game, and able to put the Canadians on their mettle before yielding them...
Yesterday was commencement day at Brown and our nine went to Providence to play an exhibition game with the Brown men. About 200 graduates, undergraduates and lady friends wit nessed the champions administer a telling defeat to the home nine. The game was played upon the "celebrated" ball field just behind the college buildings, noted for its short left field, hilly right field and the stone church at left centre...