Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first game of the year, the Freshman hockey team was defeated by St. Paul's School at Concord on Saturday afternoon, by a score of 4 to 0. Poor defense and lack of team-work--due largely to prevention of practice by the recent unfavorable weather--were chiefly responsible for the defeat; slowness and unfamiliarity with the use of the sides of the rink also contributed to it. All St. Paul's scores were made in the first, half and in the second the Freshmen played as well as their opponents...
...Hinrichs, in speaking on "Success and Successes with Especial Reference to New York Politics," said that even as a defeated reform candidate, he felt able to say the conditions are still very far from hopeless. The very fact that our form of government has thus far been a failure in the case of cities, has brought forward problems for the educated man to solve. He then showed that the great size of New York makes the combat against evil particularly interesting. Mr. Hinrichs then narrated the history of Brooklyn politics since 1881, as a good example of how upright...
...YORK CITY, Friday--The University basketball team was defeated by Columbia tonight by a score of 38 to 14. Columbia's phenomenal team play and accuracy at throwing goals together with injury to Randall and Bigelow early in the game accounts for the defeat. Roughness characterized the entire play and Columbia was constantly penalized throughout the game. Harvard played excellent basketball, but was wholly unable to locate the baskets which are unlike any others now in use in the league...
...substitutes who were put in during the latter part of the game, played with a spirit all the more creditable because it was in the face of defeat...
...face of the supposedly far superior team of Yale. Harvard's team proved that from being inferior, it was in many ways superior to Yale, and the failure on the part of the coaches to recognize early in the season the capabilities of the team contributed largely to the defeat. It seemed that the team work of the eleven during the game arose from the exigencies of the situation and the determined spirit of the individual players rather than from coaching in team play...