Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Soon after the Yale-Harvard track games at New Haven, May 15, the CRIMSON, some of the graduates and undergraduates, at least two prominent members of this year's track team, and one New York writer, affirmed that the cause of the overwhelming defeat on that day was due to the overtraining of the Harvard team. This was done without consulting with me-the only one who knew what that training had been-apparently unmindful of the many winning Harvard track teams in the past that had received advice from the same source, not considering the element of better...
...Track Team was not, as Mr. Lathrop says, overstrained at the time of the Harvard-Yale dual games, it becomes both an interesting and a difficult question to decide why the defeat was so decisive. It could not have been entirely because Yale had better men, as a comparison of previous records showed; nor was the slow track entirely to blame, because not only the runners but the high-jumpers, broad-jumpers and pole-vaulters were far below their usual form...
...objections taken in one of this morning's communications to a recent CRIMSON editorial in regard to the attitude of the University toward the crew are based on a misunderstanding of the spirit in which that editorial was written. No attempt was made to excuse a defeat before it was received, nor was the ability of the crew underrated. Indeed we believe that Harvard has a better chance to win the boat race this year than for many years past. But we also think that there has been a too general idea that the crew would win this year...
Though the game was poorly played on both sides, Princeton played much better ball than Yale, Inability to hit the ball and loose playing at critical times together with Princeton's heavy hitting accounted for Yale's defeat...
Brown won the baseball game at Providence yesterday by the score of 13 to 7. The chief reason for the defeat is to be found in Paine's weakness in the box during the first four innings, during which time six two base-hits and four singles were made off his delivery. Some of the two-base hits would have been certain outs on a good field, but according to the ground rules at Brown, every ball going over the left field fence, as every ordinary fly ball does, counts for a two base...