Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshmen more than had their revenge Saturday for the defeat which Yale '94 administered to them in Cambridge. They went to New Haven far from confident. Here Yale played a better game than Harvard and the score seemed hardly an index of the character of the two nines. The only hope for a victory in New Haven seemed to be in the change of pitchers which had taken place on both sides. This change certainly did contribute much to the triumph of Saturday, but the remarkable improvement which our team showed in every particular would have probably been sufficient...
...credit to their college by their bearing during the contests and after them. It is unpleasant to refer to a disagreeable subject; but at this time it seems necessary to give this one word of caution. Harvard men must not show, in their feelings after a victory or a defeat anything but a spirit worthy of Harvard...
...cricket eleven played the Mystics at Medford yesterday afternoon and suffered defeat by eight runs in a one inning game. The team played with much less snap than they did in the game with Haverford on Saturday. Bond and T. Perkins played the best game for the Mystics. Following is the score...
...cricket team has made, in its defeat of Haverford, an excellent start for the championship. Captain Garrett and his men are to be congratulated for their steady work throughout the season as exemplified in their play on Saturday. With a rather discouragingly small array of candidates at the beginning of the season, the captain has succeeded in building up a strong team. In its championship game against Pennsylvania and in the game with Yale next Saturday, the team may expect far more formidable opponents than in the contest with Haverford. A proportionate improvement in the play of Harvard is necessary...
...season; and we fancy that the University officials, realizing that the college work has been little interfered with will the more readily grant leaves of absence to the games. The presence of Harvard supporters will make a tremendous difference. It may be the exact difference between victory and defeat...