Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the increased cost of the tickets may have kept some graduates from standing in for tickets, the previous record of the Harvard eleven in going down to defeat at the hands of Geneva and Holy Cress undoubtedly had something to do with the diminution of interest among alumni...
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, Mormon, pre-eminent in the financial affairs of the U. S. government, is expected to defeat Ashby Snow, Democrat, also Mormon...
Lehigh, coming to Princeton, seemed stagestruck; for two periods their backs did nothing but kick against a Princeton eleven which, improved and chastened after a naval defeat, tramped through the water...
Died. Harry Greb, 32, onetime (1923-26) world champion middle-weight boxer; sole man to defeat (1922) James John ("Gene") Tunney; at Atlantic City; of heart failure, following an operation on the nose...
...only one of the three soccer teams to lose was the University Seconds, which went down to defeat before the Four Rivers Juniors, a metropolitan football club, by a 3 to 1 score. The club players were too experienced for the Crimson booters, and their play showed greater finish and desisiveness. The visitors' forward line functioned particularly well, and kept the second team defense on the run. Bell and Mitchelson piereed this defense for scores, the former counting twice. Arnold, aggressive center of the Crimson outfit, sent the sphere between the posts for his team's lone score