Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given the Yale netmen a strong fight. The almost unexpected 9-0 victory that resulted for the University gave rise to very high hopes for the Yale match on the following Saturday. Yale, however, with the characteristic determination of the Bull Dog refused to accept the odium of defeat and struggled on to a tied score at 4-4, with the outcome of the match between Whitbeck and Ingraham and Jones and Watson still in the air at a set apiece. A sudden squall of rain, when the players were about to start their final set, ended all thought...
Beginning its final week's drive before the Yale series, the University pinned a 6 to 1 defeat on the Springfield nine on Soldiers Field yesterday. Jumping into the lead in the first inning, the Crimson found the offerings of two visiting pitchers often and hard, ending the bombardment with two home runs in the last half of the eighth...
...with interest this week by every college sport follower of the East. It was not long after the season started that it became apparent to some that a repetition of last year's two-game win for the Blue was well within the limits of possibility. As injury and defeat followed each other for Captain Hammond's nine, the odds mounted steadily on the Blue, and if the University is to take the New Haven field on Tuesday anything but the underdog, it will have to show a marked improvement in this week's games...
...strong favorite to carry off first honor. The winter season for the Blue was most successful, for in addition to the capture of intercollegiate indoor honors, the Yale team won the National Class A and Class B championships. Despite this record the Yale team may go down to defeat before a hard-riding team from Pennsylvania Military College, which met the Blue earlier in the season in a game undecided until the final minute of play...
...great crowd rose shouting for Nurmi, the incomparable, the undefeatable, who once ran the mile in 4:10 2/5, who has innumerable times defeated Willie Ritola, Joie Ray (TIME, July 28, Jan. 19 et seq.)-a Nurmi like the After, of the patent-medicine advertisements. While he ran, they sat voiceless, staring at a Nurmi whose legs churned up and down, whose shoulders rolled, whose chest heaved-one who unmistakably resembled that unhappy journeyman of the piles, hookworm, gallstones, liver complaint, kidney trouble, Bright's disease, lost manhood-poor Before. They saw him, with a desperate display of iron...