Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presence for three or four years at a rival institution of a few competitors of outstanding 'championship' callbre. Remembering this, one must admire the silent devotion to sport with which many a coach has labored for the development of his sport in the face of all but certain defeat, and has taken his own fall, when it came, on the ultimate ground that he 'had not produce I results,' with stoic dignity...
...game was closely contested throughout, the lone tally being put over early in the game by Captain Bowdish, center-forward on the Cornell team. The defeat is the first one suffered at the hands of Cornell in four years...
While Harvard was going down before Holy Cross on Saturday, for the first time in history, Yale was meeting its first defeat at the hands of Pennsylvania...
...Elis, previous to their break with (Pennsylvania 34 year ago, had won 11 victories from the Red and Blue without a defeat. Moreover, Saturday's contest marked the first setback Yale has suffered since Captain Buell's Harvard eleven triumphed at the Bowl in November...
Captain Joss of Yale played in his first game of the season, although he did not start the contest. Yale started two substitute backs, Wadsworth and Noble, but the injured regulars, Allen and Cutler, saw plenty of action. The Elis opened up their game in the face of defeat as much as the University did against Holy Cross, but only three of Yale's 12 passes were successful...