Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...squad as to any other of Captain Cumnock's innovations. Our foot ball management seems determined not to learn carelessness from success; for the squad will go out even earlier this year than last. The prospects are very bright, yet men must remember that our rivals felt their defeat keenly last year, and that nothing will beat them again but hard and early work. Therefore it is to be hoped that as large a number of men as may be will come out tomorrow. Success is too pleasant for us to take any risk of failure...
...well known that in the years following the complete adoption of the elective system and the abolition of compulsory attendance at chapel the athletic affairs at Harvard got into a bad way and we suffered several years of uninterrupted defeat at the hands of Yale. It is not too much to say that this fact gave and still gives more mental discomfort to the student body than almost anything that could have happened. The pain of it was not compensated by any evidence of the increase in numbers or the surprising general prosperity of the University. Our defeats...
...course if it could be shown that the three year course was in every other way desirable, the threatened discomfort of defeat in athletics would be a light consideration. We merely wish to point out a difficulty in the way of the proposed reduction, which has, we think, received too little attention at the hands of the advocates of the three year course...
...graduates from that city unstinted gratitude for the earnest efforts they had made to show our athletes how their efforts to win in a straightforward gentlemanly way will be backed by the approbation of the alumni. He added that Mr. Hodges had often shown his loyalty to Harvard in defeat as he now had a chance to show it in victory. Mr. Hodges then made a short address, the drift of which was that the New York graduates were not trying simply to glorify victors but to show their pleasure at the fact that what success we have had lately...
...team which suffered defeat at New York on that day had one of the hardest seasons ever encountered by an eleven and "few outside of those who follow every game have any conception of the struggle which Captain Poe went through...