Word: lose
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...team has already demonstrated its worth against strong opponents. It has shown that it knows how to play good football, but better than this it has shown an indomitable courage which changes defeat into victory. We are confident that the same fighting qualities will be seen tomorrow; win or lose, we are proud of the team which possesses them...
...only chance West Point had for a score came in the final period when they advanced the ball through consistent playing to Yale's 25-yard line, only to lose all they had gained because of a penalty for holding in the line and failure to complete a slowly executed forward pass...
Harvard kicked off to Groton and then succeeded in holding so as to force them to kick. Groton regained the ball, however, on the 40-yard line, only to lose it again on a fumble, when Gilman recovered it and ran for a touchdown. Gilman kicked a difficult goal. The first quarter ended with the ball in Groton's possession on its 35-yard line. Score, Harvard 1916 10, Groton...
...case would be exactly analogous to that of inflicting probation for failure to pass in the prescribed Freshman English, French, or German, if that were the rule, which fortunately it is not. If probation comes to be the uniform penalty for failure in some particular course, will it not lose all its weight in the minds of the undergraduates...
About six o'clock all the crews went out again, the two eights paddling down stream three miles, and on the return were given a mile race. The Freshmen rowed a slightly higher stroke and gained the lead only to lose it a quarter mile from the boathouse, when both crews raised the stroke to 35. Both eights are going very well at present, the Freshmen in particular are showing fine form as compared with past Freshman crews. The rhythm and time of the University crew are much improved and the fault of clipping the catch at a high stroke...