Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...brilliant net play and hard smashing pulled out the next three sets and the match. Lyon was very effective and his overhead smashes and hard ground strokes gained many points. The Larneds lost much of their speed and control in the latter part of the match and their defeat is due largely to this fact...
...University football practice yesterday was devoted almost entirely to scrimmages in which the first eleven again showed its inability to defeat the second team. Among the other unsatisfactory features was the punting practice preceeding the regular line-up, which emphasized the fact that very few of the men have yet learned to catch the ball without fumbling. The players frequently mis-judged the kicks and were too willing to receive the ball on the bounce...
...take away any pleasure which might have been derived from watching the play. Not only did Bowdoin score, but at the end of the first half had a lead of 6 points to 5; and the hardest kind of work was required of the Harvard team to avoid defeat. Fumbling was the cause of most of Harvard's difficulties, as it was on this account that the team once failed to make a touchdown and at the same time allowed Bowdoin to score. The fact that the Bowdoin eleven had good control over the hall points to the conclusion that...
Princeton and Harvard have made the best records of any of the eastern colleges so far this season, with the possible exception of Georgetown. Harvard has lost but one game, to Holy Cross. Princeton, with the exception of two defeats by Georgetown early in the season, has been victorious up to the defeat by Illinois on May 24 by the score of 3 to 1. Two games of the Yale-Princeton series have been played. The first, played at New Haven, resulted in a victory for Yale by the score of 10 to 6; the second was won by Princeton...
...they might not have been elected had they represented a less desirable policy. In other words, given the wide-spread and habitual apathy which characterizes the members of the Society, the power of the members to elect officers and thus determine directly the policy of the Society, tends to defeat government by public opinion, it does not tend to secure it. The mere fact that persons can carry a change of policy by inducing a hand-full of persons to come to the annual meeting makes it unnecessary to acquaint the members at large with the proposal to inaugurate...