Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dark Ages before any of the undergraduates now in College knew that Harvard existed the University football teams tasted defeat year after year. The numbers at the games were small and unenthusiastic, and the Crimson supporters regarded football as a necessary evil among sports. Suddenly there came a change. Football was transformed into the most highly organized of all college activities. Certain prominent graduates interested themselves in the development of an efficient system of coaching, and immediately increased numbers of undergraduates responded to the call for candidates when they realized that their efforts would receive the attention they deserved. Much...
...beginning of the year by a full team composed of "H" men, with four others who played against Yale last season as first-string substitutes. An 8 to 0 victory over M. I. T. and another of 3 to 0 over Dartmouth were followed on January 20 by a defeat at the hands of Princeton in the St. Nicholas Rink in New York. Later, however, the two other Tiger games were taken and the Canadian contingents from Queen's and McGill were easily disposed...
...February 17 the first Yale contest in New Haven was lost by a score of 2 to 0; two weeks later the University had everything its own way in the second game with a 5 to 0 victory; and then last Saturday's defeat by a 2 to 0 score put a sudden end to all hopes of an undisputed championship...
...Haven tomorrow where they will meet Yale in the hardest match of their schedule. The team will be made up of Captain W. H. Russell '18, R. G. Crimmins '19 and E. R. Gay '19. Yale will be represented by Captain Pfleiger, Little and Downey, the same men who defeated the University fencers last year by the score of 5 to 4. Their record this season does not include a defeat. The feature match will be between Captain Russell of the University and Captain Pfleiger of Yale, neither of whom has been beaten this year...
...defence. As such they must be a powerful, disciplined organization, fitted for difficult tasks and heavy responsibilities. They must be able to act promptly and intelligently in great emergencies, just as the French reservists in the present war, who threw themselves into the breach and saved their nation from defeat...