Word: loss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This loss] is very shocking..." junior midfielder Owen Leary said. "We were really hoping to finish the season 5-1 in the Ivies...I'm shocked right now, I can't believe it happened...
...reasons Saturday's loss is so upsetting is because the Harvard lacrosse program has been undergoing a promising upward trend in the 1990s, a trend that culminated in reaching the quarterfinals of last year's NCAA tournament. Losing to Dartmouth would have been unthinkable last year, no matter how close the game actually was. The Crimson had loftier goals back then, such as taking on Hofstra and the University of Virginia in the NCAAs...
Some people might say that I'm getting too worked up over one loss to what was already a lost season in respect to Harvard making the NCAAs this year. But one of the things that was the most disturbing about Saturday's game was the fact that Harvard's players did not seem upset enough about losing to Dartmouth...
After the game, players walked off the field with a kind of confused disbelief. But that seemed to be about the height of the emotional level all day. I'm not saying I expected to see wild, uncontrolled tempertantrums after the loss, but a little more reaction to such a stunning defeat would have been welcome...
...fact that Dartmouth looks forward to this game all season have anything to do with the loss...