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...Senior basketball team defeated the Juniors last evening in the second game of the interclass series by the score of 39 to 23. The game was hard-fought and until the last few minutes very close. Just before the end of the first half, with the score tied at 9 points, the Seniors took the lead by making four goals in quick succession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS WON BASKETBALL | 1/19/1910 | See Source »

...been expected, the game was essentially a kicking game in which Coy had the advantage over Minot, nor was either team able to score on "straight" football. The punting made the game a very open one, in which brilliant individual plays were very frequent. The game was hard-fought from beginning to end, Harvard excelling in the straight rushing, while Yale entirely offset this by excellent judgement and punting. O'Flaherty, the Harvard quarterback, did not appear to drive the team with the best of judgment; he was very weak in handling punts, and at times failed to take advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE, 8; HARVARD, 0 | 11/22/1909 | See Source »

...Colgate were defeated early in the season. On October 6 Brown defeated Bates 17 to 0, the next week Amherst was defeated 10 to 0, but last Saturday Pennsylvania won from Brown 13 to 5. Last year Harvard barely defeated Brown 6 to 2 in a very close and hard-fought game. The Brown team is heavy, very fast and has a number of exceptionally good trick plays. The whole team with the exception of McKay and Altdoerffer, who may not play, is in good condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL WITH BROWN AT 3 | 10/23/1909 | See Source »

...Pomfret was easily defeated 20 to 3. At Andover the Freshman team suffered their only defeat in a sensational game in which the Freshmen played the best, ball of the season. At New Haven, in the first game of the series, they defeated Yale 6 to 4 in a hard-fought game, and a week ago last Saturday, closed the season successfully by shutting out the Cornell freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Baseball Season Ended | 6/7/1909 | See Source »

ITHACA, N. Y., May 31.--Cornell defeated the University crew by a few feet of open water in an extremely close and hard-fought race this evening over the two-mile course on Lake Cayuga. The Cornell crew covered the course in 10 minutes and 41 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW DEFEATED BY CORNELL | 6/1/1909 | See Source »

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