Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...football and track athletics, boating continues to loom up pre-eminently as the representative sport. The Cornell navy came into existence in 1871, when there were only about 400 men in the university against its present 1400. The next year a crew was sent to Spring field and met defeat. Although creeping up in place, defeat fodowed for two years, until 1873, when a turning point was reached. In that year Cornell's freshmen defeated Harvard, Brown and Princeton, and the 'varsity won its first great race against twelve competitors. Both of these victories were repeated...
...Athletic Committee. He says that by their action they have hurt Harvard greatly in obliging her to take such an unfortunate stand and have made her the laughing stock of Yale and Princeton. The making of such regulations, would after a victory have been foolish, but after defeat they are more nearly disgraceful. He further says that the spirit of interference shown by the faculty is very detrimental to the welfare from an athletic point of view and is particularly unfortunate just at the present time, coming as it does when athletics at Harvard seem to have taken...
...since it is not likely our crew will consent to row a three cornered race. Now there seems to us no valid reason why Harvard should row Columbia this year. The record of Harvard-Columbia freshman races shows an easy superiority for Harvard. In addition to this our defeat of two years ago-the only special argument which Columbia can now pretend to urge-was completely wiped out by the victory of our freshman crew last year. There seems, therefore, no valid reason for a contest with Columbia next spring...
...showing how a rule is apt to open up unexpected avenues of play, the snap-back system brought in its progress the block game which came fatally near putting an end to American football The block game contained no element of science whatever, but was only an avoidance of defeat and an acknowledgement of weakness. It consisted in 'taking up time' by snapping the ball with as little loss of ground as possible and crying 'down' at once. Fortunately for football there were a few men, like Mr. Manning of Harvard, who, by the way, had practically the deciding...