Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...summing up the situation at the end of the football season we find an item which appears as regularly as we are defeated. We know that it offends all undergraduates who have though seriously on the football question--and that is a very inclusive category; we believe that it receives little sympathy from graduates. This item is the wholesale and unfriendly criticism of the Harvard coaches, appearing in newspapers the day after the game, and written as a rule by old players whose right to criticise history does not entirely justify. Doubtless only a deep interest in our team could...
...result of their apparent lack of interest the teams cannot but feel that they are representing only a small part of their classes. In the game this afternoon both teams should be impressed with the fact that they are playing for a much greater object than to defeat the eleven men who face them...
...annual tournament of the Intercollegiate Lawn Tennis Association at Haverford. All four members of the team won their way into the semi-finals of the singles, so that the last three matches were played between Harvard men. G. P. Gardner '10, playing in beautiful form, won the tournament by defeating N. W. Niles '09 by the score of 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2. Both Pell and Gardner and Niles and Dabney reached the semi-finals in the doubles tournament, but here Pell and Gardner met defeat at the hands of Gerlach and Gordon of Princeton...
...strong players, and of fighters who will use everything they know to win a victory. Let the undergraduates do all that is in their power to assure the team that the University is behind them to a man, and that no one who is worth while will admit defeat any more than the players themselves...
Yale has a tremendously strong eleven this year, and we are now in a position where we have everything to win and nothing to lose, for there is no disgrace in defeat by such a powerful team...