Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...delegation of Princeton men will probably accompany their team to witness the foot-ball game of next Saturday. Harvard, we are, sure will give the visitors from New Jersey a hearty welcome; and her students will show them every courtesy in their power. Whether it meets with victory or defeat, the college will be well pleased to entertain the Princeton men to the best of its ability...
George M. Robeson of New Jersey ascribes his defeat to Keifer's speeches in his district...
Dartmouth's foot-ball team received an overwhelming defeat from our 'Varsity yesterday on Holmes, before about four hundred spectators. The result could have been predicted at the very outset of the game, for the visitors were no match for our men either in weight or skill...
...eleven of Columbia, class '85, which sustained defeat at the hands of the Stevens Institute at Hoboken on Saturday and not the Columbia University eleven. The latter played their first match of the season yesterday with the Princeton team at the Polo Grounds...
...massed the basses in the centre, and stationed the tenors on the wings, the leader gave the signal for readiness. In the meantime the 'cellos had performed a beautiful fantasia, which elicited great enthusiasm from the lookers-on, but gradually subsided to a low wail, as if preparatory to defeat. The signal was given; the instruments lead off on the "Marseillaise," while from the other end of the field thundered the chorus of "Yankee Doodle." A terrific crash followed, as the opposing ranks met in the struggle; screams of grief, shouts of triumph, filled the air, while the strains...