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Word: defeats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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Washington and Jefferson came to the Bowl a week later expecting to beat Yale, but went down to a 36-to-14 defeat in the fastest and cleanest game of the season. There was no doubt as to Yale's supremacy. They were strong on offence and defence and won with comparative ease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEW OF YALE SEASON SHOWS ATTACK POWERFUL | 11/24/1916 | See Source »

...faces Yale on the same field. Four successive victories have inspired an unshakable confidence in the ability of the Harvard team to win, and there only remains the danger that this feeling will develop into one of overconfidence, which is the first and longest step on the road to defeat. An overconfident cheering section is the worst enemy of its own team. Harvard is determined to win, but it must be a victory obtained on her own merits and not because of any fancied inferiority of the opposing team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE GAME. | 11/24/1916 | See Source »

...hardest game of the season. In September the football experts all over the country were unanimous in pronouncing it Harvard's "off year." The team has been beaten twice in the nine games played so far, but no one can say that a year has seen the defeat of both Cornell and Princeton has been a failure. A victory over Yale on Saturday is all that is needed to make this season as successful as those of recent years and though we are to face an unusually strong Eli team, it is not unreasonable to expect a victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Team Needs Whole-Hearted Support. | 11/22/1916 | See Source »

PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 19.--After holding the Yale team to a scoreless tie nor two periods yesterday, the carefully drilled Princeton eleven went down to a 10 to 0 defeat before the grit and force of the inexperienced Yale team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS SHUT OUT BY YALE | 11/20/1916 | See Source »

This afternoon, at Soldiers Field, the University eleven plays Brown. This afternoon, in New Haven, our Freshman team encounters the Yale freshman eleven. Each of Harvard's two teams has suffered but one defeat and it is to be hoped that each one will finish the season auspiciously--that the simile between the two elevens will continue to hold true...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TODAY'S GAMES | 11/18/1916 | See Source »

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