Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enraged at their ignominious defeat, the besotted horde of dirt hounds sought revenge by storming the Crimson Building with their natural weapon, mud. A near riot ensued in which the three CRIMSON news editors who happened to be in the building put 43 lampoon amateurs to shame. Peace was not restored, however, before the blood of the misguided humorists had been spattered indecently over the facade of the building and on the sidewalk. The cringing pseudo-comic mudslingers then retired to their funny little bungalow on Mount Auburn Street, carrying most of their wounded with them...
Uncorking a brand of strategy that made defeat impossible, the gentlemen of the Crimson put the minions of the lampoon to rout this afternoon in the annual football game on Soldiers Field. From start to finish the low minded punsters were suppressed far more efficiently than by police and post-office and finally retired in shame at the short end of the customary 23 to 2 score...
...feature race of the Quadrangular Regatta on Saturday, with a crippled Pennsylvania outfit, M. I. T. and Cornell finishing in order. Not since 1920 had a Crimson crew finished ahead of any eight except M. I. T., and until Saturday Cornell's record had remained unblemished by a Harvard defeat since...
Both the 1928 and Second teams triumphed on Saturday, the Freshmen sending Exeter down to its first defeat of the season, 6 to 3, while the Harvard substitutes were finding the second inning enough to defeat Went-worth Institute, the final score being...
...Freshman tennis team went down to defeat before the first-year Pennsylvania netmen Saturday to the score of 6 to 1. Just before the matches, which were played on the Divinity courts. J. C. Rueter '28 was elected captain of the Freshman team Rueter prepared at Middlesex. He has played at No. 1 so far this season...