Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...thinking over the recent defeat of the Shooting Club by Yale we find that the chances for a victory for Harvard at the next meeting are great, if certain things are straightened out which are not as they ought to be at present. We find that the Harvard score was greater than our score last fall when we won, a fact which tends to show that our representatives have only met more skillful opponents this year than before. In looking for the causes of the defeat we find a number of reasons why our team was beaten...
...glad to see that arrangements have been undertaken for a foot ball dinner by the same committee, practically as officiated last year. The brilliant success of that affair after a defeat augurs well for this dinner of congratulation. Those who intend to go can and should help the committee by signing without delay. Judging from the enthusiasm of the college and the certainty of interesting and stirring exercises, the chief difficulty will be in getting a dining hall large enough for the crowd...
...excitement of the past few days we have overlooked editorially the defeat which the Harvard Shooting Club suffered at the hands of Yale. The representatives of Harvard were hardly in condition to undertake the match but thought that if all was favorable a creditable showing might be made. Unfortunately, nearly every day of practice went for nothing on account of windy and cold weather. The shooting of Harvard showed this lack of practice, and in this way only can we account for so signal a defeat...
...mention for Yale are McClung and Heffelfinger, the former's running and tackling being especially good, while for Harvard, Cumnock, Newell, Lee, Corbett and Dean did the best work. All of Harvard's points were made within five minutes time and the sight of a team, with almost inevitable defeat staring them in the face, making a touch-down against an eleven flushed with victory and straining every effort to keep them from scoring, was an exhibition of dogged pluck and undismaved determination which was worth travelling miles to see and of which every Yale man may feel justly proud...
...criticised severely by outsiders. But if looked at below the surface, the result of Saturday's game means more than the ordinary athletic victory. It means that Harvard has stuck to the work of beating Yale all these years with a grim determination, that in the face of defeat after defeat Harvard has always started in again with renewed energy, and finally has been successful. There is every reason, including a moral reason, why Harvard should be jubilant now that Yale is beaten...