Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious threat is scheduled for Tuesday, May 30, and Thursday, June 1. On both those days the Crimson will meet the powerful Brown organization. After having beaten the Springfield team, which gained a 2-1 victory over the University, by the liberal score of 6-1, and after having defeated the powerful Amherst team by a 6-0 score, the Providence men gave way only to the Yale nine in a 6-4 defeat...
...erratic season. An early game went to Princeton by a 4-3 score. A 13-2 conquest of Columbia came as a result of efficient playing for the Penn nine, which took advantage of every opportunity at the plate, on bases, and in the field. After a warm defeat at the hands of Swarthmore, the team again played in its best form when it shut out the Dartmouth team with four runs...
...walk in the ninth with three men on was responsible for the 3-2 Freshmen defeat at the hands of the Andover Academy team at Andover on Saturday afternoon. The yearlings played almost an errorless game and the Academy players had seven errors scored against them, the schoolboys were able to gain the lead early in the game and to hold the Freshmen scoreless until the eighth when both the 1925 runs were made. Superior hitting was the keynote of the Andover success for the victors pounded out eight timely hits against the visitors' three drives...
...diamond and track, Princeton and Harvard meet today. The Orange and Black nine, "brilliant but erratic", is in Cambridge, determined to avenge last year's decisive defeat; the Princeton track team, on its own grounds and confident because of the victory over Yale, is ready to face the Crimson. Harvard men, cheering for the nine on Soldiers Field; will not forget the track team in New Jersey...
...departure for Princeton the coaches and the University squad are confident that the Tiger runners will have to go the limit to defeat it. The odds against the Crimson are about the same as last year just before the Yale meet, in which Coach Bingham's men barely missed upsetting all the "dope" and gaining a victory, and it is felt that Captain Brown's team has the potential strength of surprising the Tigers to an even greater degree. The most optimistic Princeton supporters admit that the odds in favor of the Orange and Black win are not very great...