Word: forfeitable
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...team failing to appear ready to play any scheduled game at the appointed time shall forfeit the game to the opposing nine...
...player who forfeits one match will forfeit...
...crew is hardly sound to say the least. There are two valid reasons for the refusal. Neither Harvard nor Yale can be expected to enter a three cornered race or to row two races. In view of these facts it is hardly to be supposed that either will forfeit its engagement with the other in order to enter a race with Cornell, particularly when the interest of both colleges and of the country centres upon the Harvard and Yale race more than upon any one event of the athletic year. Our rowing associations with Yale are too honorable...
...stay until Monday or the game would surely have been postponed, as the weather prevented anything like ball playing, the rain falling steadily all the time. Nothing but the strongest necessity would have been a fit excuse for playing the game, but Harvard must play the game or forfeit it. Since it was decided to play it, the Harvard men should have done their best. Instead of this, however, with the express purpose of delaying the game, no one tried to play. Wood in especial distinguished himself. He made not the slightest attempt to pitch ball. He threw overhand...
...understand that the captain of the lacrosse team has organized a twelve who will go to Lehigh at their own expense in order that Harvard may not forfeit the game, which she is bound in honor to play, and which is financially necessary to the Lehigh team. We cannot praise such action too highly, for the men who go to Lehigh will save one of our University teams from reproach...