Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Victories over New Hampshire and UC-Berkeley put two wins on the board, but then Harvard lost another four in a row, including a close 2-1 defeat at the hands of Princeton, the eventual league champ...
...next month, Harvard alternated wins and losses in numerous close contests. Not only were 10 of its next 19 games decided by one or two goals, but Harvard also was involved in three overtime setbacks. Except for an embarrassing 7-3 defeat at the hands of St. Lawrence in early December, Harvard was holding its own in the hot ECAC race...
...then Harvard fell to Brown in Providence in double-overtime, 73-70, a loss that took a lot of steam out of the Crimson's ship. The close defeat came on a Saturday night a week before the Princeton-Penn gauntlet, and on that next weekend Harvard seemed to be a little tighter than it was a month before...
...inches to the left at Cornell, fewer turnovers against Princeton and Dartmouth, any defense down the stretch against Fordham and Columbia...Harvard could have just as easily been 6-3 instead of 1-8 going into The Game. The team had even been in great position to defeat eventual league champion Princeton, but fumbled the ball twice in the fourth quarter inside the Tigers' 15-yard line...
...close, so often--watching the Crimson defeat itself week after week when it could have cruised to victory was frustrating. The players knew that they were better that their record indicated, and every week Frantz, Ferrara and Hu reiterated this statement at the post-game press conference...