Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...failure of the freshmen Saturday to defeat Andover should not lead to discouragement on their part, nor induce them to despair of victory over Yale. Yale's eleven, it should be remembered, has always the advantages of several weeks more of practice than our own, and consequently more is to be expected of them at this early date. Two weeks of assiduous practice may work an entire change in the prospects of our team. Only persistent and constant effort is necessary. The honor of victory would be sufficiently high to repay all the pains the eleven may take...
...short time since a ball nine from Cornell University played a game with the Hobart freshman nine, in which the former nine were ingloriously vanquished. It was subsequently discovered by the Cornellites that the Hobart men had engaged some outside talent, and to this the Cornell nine attributed their defeat. Trouble ensued, the Cornellites claiming that they were not honestly beaten, and charging the Hobart nine with unfairness, and the latter asserting that it was not an unusual thing to engage ball-players not connected with the college. The Hobart faculty interfered and sided with the Cornell nine. They advised...
...good work, while Harvard's strength lay in good tackling by the rush line and kicking by the quarter-back. Several very pretty runs were made by the half-backs, especially in the first half of the game, when Amherst's hard and quick tackling saved her from worse defeat. On the whole the match gave very good practice to our eleven, as the Amherst team was always on the lookout to gain every possible advantage. But the 'Varsity must play a steadier game and show more spirit in their rushing and tackling. The half-backs in particular must play...
...great pity that the crew dinner should prove a fiasco, especially after their hard-won race last June. If it were ever becoming to banquet a crew, it would certainly be this one, who labored perseveringly in the face of defeat prophesied on all hands and were finally victorious over rivals whose method was considered easy victory or ruination, and which proved neither one nor the other. The subscribers for the dinner have come forward in ridiculously small numbers, either through forgetfulness of the near approach of the date assigned or for some less charitable reason. Let us hope...
...they are to be successful in their game with Exeter next Saturday. Whether their first efforts prove successful or unsuccessful they must not let momentary exultation or discouragement affect their work, but must consider no victory important in comparison to the coveted one over the Yale freshmen, and no defeat so much to be provided against as defeat by them. '86 has everything before them; they enter upon their work backed by the interest of the college. May they realize their position, and by faithful work come out successful in what they have undertaken...