Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first game with Princeton in Cambridge will be played this afternoon. Our nine was so unfortunate as to suffer defeat at their hands in the championship game, but it has since clearly shown itself able to cope with stronger adversaries and will, we sincerely hope, show its true strength today. The visitors have fallen several degrees since they last met our nine, and it is very probable they will soon have to resign all hopes of first place for this season...
...Over-confidence," says the N. Y. Times, was generally set down as the cause of the defeat of the Yale men at New Haven Saturday...
...remarkably good game that '85 played with the Yale freshmen Saturday should not inspire them with too much confidence of winning the next game with Yale. To be sure the Yale freshmen had the advantage of an enthusiastic crowd to back them, but their narrow escape from defeat will make them work indefatigably until they come to Cambridge to meet their plucky adversaries on their own grounds. '85 should work harder than ever now, and accomplish that which has not been done for years - beating a Yale freshman nine. If they do this they will have accomplished a feat that...
...embitterments which may have arisen, to form a lasting remembrance of the happiest day of the college year, depend upon two games of base-ball? Should the misfortune of the few heap the greatest misfortune upon the many? Perhaps, however, this is meant as a grand reform; and the defeat of the nine, the crew, or the eleven at the hands of Yale, will deprive them of time-honored privileges. By all means, let this decision be rescinded, and, depend upon it, the freshman nine, if they represent a class placed on level with the more advanced, will respond more...
...first few minutes of a game, and with the disadvantage of a strange ground, none but a decidedly superior team could withstand such an attack. But after the first excitement has passed, a much inferior team can block their opponents and prevent scoring, though tacitly acknowledging their fear of defeat by massing around goal and playing only on the defence...