Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News speaks thus of the Princeton game: "The game resulted in a sad defeat for us, and one long to be remembered. There is no doubt but that a winning game would have been played had the nine been better supported. Many times have our teams been inspired with Yale's enthusiasm to win glorious victories. Harvard sent two hundred and Princeton over a hundred men to eneourage their representatives, while less than twenty Yale men went to support our nine...
...Yale News comes out squarely and acknowledges the probable loss of the championship in base-ball. It is the first time for years that the defeat of our opponents is laid to that hitherto almost unknown quantity, Yale indifference. We quote the editorial in full...
...trying to conceal this fact. We make this apparently premature statement for the reason that we think it impossible for both Brown and Yale to beat Harvard; both of which things would have to happen even to tie Harvard for first place. We shall try to bear our defeat as best we can. It was bound to come some day, as people say of Hanlan. There are many circumstances which lead us to think that fortune is not favorably inclined toward us this year. She began last fall and has shown her displeasure more or less all the time since...
...York to day, the contesting teams will be Druids of Ballimore vs. Stevens Institute; Harvard vs. Williamshurg Athletic Club; Princeton vs. New York University. Harvard is unfortunate in having to meet the Williamsburgs in the trial heat, as that club is the strongest one entered. The defeat of the Drulds Thursday, by a score of 5 goals to 3, is a source of surprise, and argnes well for the success of the crimson...
...college looks forward to another championship victory in the game against Brown this afternoon. This expectation is but natural, in view of the score made in the two previous games against this college, and when it is remembered that the Dartmouth nine, which was so easily defeated by our team, found no difficulty in winning the game at Hanover yesterday. Yet, in spite of the strong probabilities of success, all over confidence must be suppressed, for, of all games, base-ball is one the most uncertain, as has been shown only too often by the unexpected victories of a weak...