Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game in her hands. Whoever wins that game must fight it out to the bitter end, and any feeling of security is ill founded. Too much confidence tends too spoil the team. It also tends to produce a violent reaction against the method of coaching in case of defeat. Finally it gives outsiders and graduates an exaggerated idea of the team's ability, which calls down upon them perhaps unjust criticism if they are defeated by a team which is comparatively underrated...
With the signal defeat of Brown last Saturday the strength of Pennsylvania's team this year has been proved beyond a doubt to be unusually great, and disregarding the possibility of a "slump" or the handicap of an unusual number of injuries to the men, it is the general opinion that the game with Harvard will be a hard fought...
...river for his first work in preparing a crew for the race next spring. Mr. Lehmann's arrival then means much to the University. It means that last year's tremendous increase of interest in rowing will not be permitted to die down under the discouragement of defeat. It means further that there will be no sweeping change of system as in the past-that on the contrary the principles which served as a pattern for rowing instruction last year will be strictly adhered to this year, and if there be any change whatever, it will be in the line...
Yale sustained a practical defeat at West Point on Saturday. Although the score gave the game the semblance of a draw the cadets practically won. During both halves the play was continually in Yale's territory, and it was only during the last half when there were but five minutes to play that Corwin secured the ball on a fumble and scored a fluke touchdown after a seventy yard...
...play winning ball against a strong team has already been shown in the second Princeton game. And, when they realize that they have the entire confidence of the University in their power to win this afternoon, we believe that they will rise to the occasion again and defeat Yale...