Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...letter in the Cornell Sun, thus comments on Lacrosse at Harvard. The only game that our lacrosse team has played was a defeat for us. But without doubt we shall continue to hold the first place in this as we have in previous years. The game is growing more and more in popularity here. It has paid its own way, and done the college credit...
...Harvard, Kendall and Bonsal rushed very well and Codman's tackling was almost perfect, while Henry's half-back play was universally acknowledged as the best work of the day. Time and again be saved us from worse defeat, and the touchdown was largely due to his remarkable kicking. The game throughout was the fairest ever played with Yale, and were it not for the deliberate fouling the Yale rushers showed in their tackling of Henry their playing seemed very straightforward...
Tomorrow the eleven plays the last and most important game of the season. The men have worked hard and earnestly under the careful supervision of a faithful captain, and in case of victory or defeat they deserve our hearty commendation. The customary ill-luck which seems to follow the foot-ball team has not failed us this year, for the eleven will go to the field tomorrow crippled by the loss of many of its best players. At the best, our struggle with Yale could not fail to be an exceedingly close one; but, entering it as we do, with...
...Gibson, after his defeat for the lord rectorship of St. Andrews, telegraphed to Mr. Lowell to congratulate him and to say that no one recognized more readily than himself Mr. Lowell's eminence and superior claims...
...view of our defeat by Princeton, it will perhaps be of interest to compare the advantages that foot-ball enjoys in the two colleges. At Princeton, there are, unless things have changed very recently, six regular teams, -the freshman, freshman scrub, sophomore, sophomore scrub, university, and university scrub. Of course other things being equal, six teams ought to develop three times as much material as two ; and the result is that ache year the team is composed mainly of seniors, who have had three years experience of the game. The university teams play before dinner from...