Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...days pass by after another defeat by Yale there seems to be little abatement in the discussion of the football situation. Criticism of what has been done in the past and suggestions for the future are without end. They give ample proof that football is not an interest which influences players alone, but one which fires the whole University. Some think that the importance of football is exaggerated, and they have strong arguments with which to back up their ideas. The great weight of opinion, however, seems to bear upon the fact that we are out to win, and that...
...present football situation in Harvard University, emphasized by the stinging defeat of last Saturday, if bound to cause much adverse criticism from both graduates and undergraduates. The responsibility for the defeat must be mainly with those in control of football, although at least a part must be borne by Harvard men themselves. This lesser responsibility is due to the general spirit of resignation which was shown, immediately after the Yale game, to have pervaded the University. Being resigned to defeat, coupled with the sentiment so generally expressed: "Well, they played ever so much better than was expected and did mighty...
...anyone satisfied with Saturday's game? We hope not. After giving all due praise to the men who played so brilliantly, who can declare that any individual excellence will compensate for a defeat by Yale? Possibly the ideal of sport is a game in which the fun of playing eclipses the desire for victory. However unfortunately constituted, no real American team can feel that they have accomplished their purpose unless they at least break even with their strongest opponents...
Every fall we enthuse and the team fights its hardest. Then, after Yale has won by a narrow margin, some try to console us with the statement that we have done our best and suffered an honorable defeat. What ground for self-complacency does that offer us? We should call any man "yellow" who did not play the best he knew how against Yale...
...does not express the real opinion of any but a small portion of Harvard men. But the sentiments which are voiced after every hard-fought Yale game are enough to justify him in his conclusions. "Isn't it about time for Harvard men to stop being satisfied with creditable defeat?" With this sentence the Globe writer introduces his arraignment of our attitude toward football. The accusation angers us at first; but how is the outsider to know how bitter each successive defeat is to a great majority of undergraduates and graduates? We conceal our disappointment under praises of the "splendid...