Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Superior generalship won Yale the great game at Springfield on Saturday. This tells the whole story of defeat in as accurate and concise a form as possible. The score was 6 to 0, but while it suggests the closeness of the struggle, it tells little about the comparative merits of the teams...
...advantage which Yale gained by winning the toss and her choice of goals certainly told largely in her favor, but it was purely the result of luck. Harvard cannot and will not lay either Yale's victory or Harvard's defeat to the toss of a coin, no matter what its significance may seem to be. Her sportsmanlike spirit will assert itself here as elsewhere and give to Yale the credit of having won fairly and squarely and purely on her merits...
...Butterworth, although also by Thorne with fine effect, were irresistible, and to this persistent bucking of the line is due Yale's victory. It was an exact repetition of the Pennsylvania game in this respect, where Butterworth with his inimitable skill followed the same tactics and saved Yale from defeat. The evenness of Yale's play in both offensive and defensive work was one of the most striking features of the game. So equally balanced were they that in point of comparative strength it is hard to distinguish between...
...there be never a falter. Harvard is fighting against odds, and a glorious fight it is. No Harvard man worthy the name, will be disheartened because of defeat, or will slacken in his support of the eleven. Another game remains to be played this year,- to lose which would be profoundly disastrous, to gain which by a good score would be greatly encouraging. Let us forget Yale, and make ready for Pennsylvania. The eleven will be on Jaris this afternoon at half past two to practice, and every student in Cambridge ought to be there to cheer them...
...gives us as much pleasure as it would if Harvard had won. We can thank the team for the faithfulness which has kept them up to their work through thick and thin, and the coaches for the assistance which they have given in developing the material. The line of defeats which Harvard has sustained has logically produced as much effect in one direction as the line of victories has for Yale in another. Against the discouraging influence of these defeats Harvard has worked away with a will and the only thing she has lost is the game; her self respect...