Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Saturday's game resulted in a fair and square defeat for Harvard. Our team was outplayed and that tells the story. The play of the Yale eleven was the most beautiful exhibition of the possibilities of foot ball that has ever been seen, and even in the hour of defeat we can sincerely congratulate our New Haven rivals for the good they have done the game. They have demonstrated more clearly than it has ever been demonstrated before that foot ball is susceptible of constant development not merely on that side which is purely mechanical but upon the side...
...accomplished so much should have been left to struggle in a hopeless individual contest against eleven men playing as one, and all through lack of proper coaching. It is this feeling, the protest against the needless sacrifice of excellent material, that gives the single touch of bitterness to our defeat...
...ball season would have had its lesson no matter how Saturday's game had resulted. The college shows that it has already learned the lesson by its steady loyalty to the team even after the realization that a mistake was being made in the handling of the men. The defeat must have emphasized the same lesson upon the foot ball men and our graduate advisors. So it is safe to say that the blunder of this year cannot be repeated. The thing to do now is to go forward united and stronger than ever to the victory which...
...crowd been seen on an Exeter campus. The four or five thousand spectators showed how much confidence each side placed in its eleven. It seemed, however as if Andover realized that cool, steady work alone would win the game, while Exeter did not wake up to the fact that defeat was possible until it was too late to make any essential difference in the score. Andover cheered lustily even when success seemed to be leaving her, but no sooner had the tables turned, when a spirit of despondency seized both Exeter students and players and the result was utter defeat...
...beginning of the season the sophomore eleven was rated as the weakest of the class teams. But the candidates for the team went to work with a will and succeeded in winning their first game. It was generally thought, however, that it was useless for them to hope to defeat either the juniors or the seniors. But in spite of this the men kept faithfully to their work; best of all they have worked not only with the body but with the head, and the result was seen in yesterday's game. The sophomores gave the most beautiful exhibition...