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Word: defeats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...about ten days before the final freshman game with Yale. The 'varsity base ball management has as yet taken no steps, so far as we know, towards providing the freshmen with a competent coach. No one who saw the first freshman game with Yale could doubt that Harvard's defeat was due to a lack of sufficient training. It is hardly fair to Ninety-four that she should not have the advantages of her predecessors, and it is hardly fair to the college that the freshmen should not be given every opportunity to win their last game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/21/1891 | See Source »

College base ball games on Wednesday resulted in the defeat of Dartmouth by Williams 22 to 8; and of Brown by Yale 11 to 7. Yale got 14 hits with a total of 24 from Woodcock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/15/1891 | See Source »

...defeat of the junior nine seems to have been predestined; for early yesterday morning the flie alarm tolled out a mournful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/8/1891 | See Source »

...Yale ever had. Whether the absence of this graduate from the list of advisers of the nine is due to Mr. Dean's personal prejudice or to an accidental oversight, he ought to be consulted at once. If Mr. Dean will act on this suggestion perhaps the nine may defeat Yale after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 5/6/1891 | See Source »

...realize the work which is before them. Their game on Saturday certainly did not show that they had a full sense of what they must do; and their practice yesterday was equally disappointing. The college does not, however, in spite of these untoward circumstances, look forward to a defeat from Yale '94. It expects its representatives to play a game of which they may be proud; and a game which will bring victory. The college is prone to this opinion because it believes that the freshmen have enough energy to take a big "brace" in the next three days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/5/1891 | See Source »

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