Word: defeated
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...Princeton Gymnasium. Princeton's team has thus far lost every game it has played in the intercollegiate championship league, and a further comparison of the scores made by Harvard and Princeton in the series indicates an easy victory for the University team. Harvard played Princeton on January 19 and defeated her team 17 to 12 in a poorly played game, which, nevertheless, showed the superiority of the University team. Both Harvard and Princeton lost to Yale, but Princeton's defeat was much the more decisive. Harvard gave Cornell a severe defeat by a score...
...water polo game was very closely contested but was finally won by Brown by the score of 6 to 0. The defeat was due to the weakness of the University defense against the heavier forwards of the opposing team in shallow water. Three goals were scored in each half...
...spite of the defeat by Hartford in the championship game, the University association football season has been very encouraging. Candidates for the team reported for the first practice on November 5, Although severely handicapped by the absence of several of the best men until after the close of the football season individually the team developed rapidly. The first league game was with Columbia, December 1, and was won by the score of 1 to 0. Cornell was defeated under adverse conditions in the second game on December 3 by the score of 5 to 1. By means of excellent individual...
Under the old rules the result might have been otherwise because the University line from tackle to tackle was superior to the Yale line. It was the versatility and precision of the Yale attack which undoubtedly caused Harvard's defeat, together with the superb generalship of T. Jones, the Yale quarterback. On the whole the two elevens were fairly evenly matched, for what advantage Harvard had in the line was counterbalanced by the excellence of the opposing backs and substitute backs, and by the University team's weakness on the ends...
...rules were still far from realization. The future eleven was beginning to take shape about this time, when Forbes was moved from tackle to end, and Hockenberger was proving his worth as a centre. The two remaining games proved to be hard ones. By a splendid brace, when defeat seemed certain, Yale was victorious over West Point. Brown also was a difficult opponent and held Yale down to one hard fought touchdown...