Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News explains the recent defeat of their freshman nine by the fact that their manager failed to bring on any bats, and thus prevented the team from making hits...
...approval of the conduct of the Yale men at that game so generally condemned by the press: "We have a word of thanks for the way in which some members of the college used their voices yesterday to bring victory out of what seemed an almost sure defeat-but why wait so long. The game cannot always be won in the last half as it was yesterday. Let the cheering be strong and hearty from the start, and with the nine that we have we need not expect again to see them so far behind...
...which have recently been enacted at New Haven, instead of being an honor to the nine, would be a disgrace to them and the college, and that unfair applause has never been met with by those opponents who have played us here in Cambridge. Harvard, if necessary, can bear defeat, but the college cannot bear that our visitors should feel that there was the slightest tinge of unfairness in their treatment. Let every man, then, give his heartiest support to the nine; and whether victory or defeat shall come to us in the next few weeks, we will have done...
...hours a week during September, if not during the entire summer, to kicking and catching. It may not be agreeable to undergo any exertion during the summer months, but it is only by the self-sacrifice and hard work of individuals that we can hope to check the annual defeat we sustain at the hands of Yale...
...freshmen class have reason to be proud for their nine played and won a very good game from Yale last Saturday on its merits. Especially after their recent defeat in New Haven is the victory a gratifying one to the college, and for the college we congratulate '87 on their success. In some of its features the game was very brilliantly played, and every man on the nine played well. We might add, too, that the game was won over no feeble opponents. The Yale men have nothing to be ashamed of, for they played well nigh as strong...