Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...misfortunes have necessitated serious changes even at this late date. There has hardly ever been a time when the crew was more in need of an experienced eye and a skilful guiding hand to bring it into shape for the great race. If the race is lost, the defeat comes back on all the college, graduates as well as undergraduates. At times like these every one who has it in his power to help the crew ought to feel it, is it too strong to call it his duty, to give all the assistance in his power. As we said...
...members of the Harvard eleven returned to Cambridge Monday morning and would have brought the championship with them if it had not been for the playing of Mr. W. S. Ellis '89, ex-captain of the Harvard eleven, to whose bowling alone Harvard's one defeat...
...raised the crew cannot go to New London. Then while the managers are slaving about the class trying to get enough money, the crew will be waiting in Cambridge and losing days of valuable practice at New London, practice which may mean to them the difference between victory and defeat. This delay might just as well be avoided by providing the funds now. The class wants to send its crew down to the race, the crew is bound to win and has a good chance to do so, and the class will sooner or later make up its mind...
...played in every department of the game tells the story of the defeat of the freshman nine yesterday. The game was played on Jarvis Field, and was marked by a noticeable absence of the usual crowd of howling supporters, due no doubt to the fact that an admission fee of twenty-five cents was charged...
Yale will consult the best sporting authority on the subject and appeal to the popular mind as to whether she is entitled to 105 points and the match instead of 104 points and defeat...