Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington on Tuesday. Although last year the University nine won a 13 to 9 victory, the Washington team's early season scores would indicate a closer contest in store. The next game will be with a Navy team at Annapolis which gave the University a 4 to 2 setback last year, and Thursday will find the team at College Park for a game with the University of Maryland. Maryland was not on the 1924 schedule and has no record to indicate its power this season...
...Yale team has had an exceptionally successful season, having won all its matches so far. Comparative scores, however, give Harvard a slight lead in spite of the setback from Brown. In the meets with Princeton, the Elis could score only a 14 to 13 victory, while the Harvard grapplers piled up a tally...
...blood which covered the bedclothes. He had died about an hour before, so quickly that he had not had time to summon aid. Thus ended his career-a career that began in a family of distinction and ended at a time when, although he had suffered a temporary political setback, it was still apparently on the crescendo. He came from the family of "Harvester" McCormicks. The three members of the family in the generation which first attained fame were Cyrus, William and Leander. Cyrus was father of Cyrus II as well as Harold F. (who married Edith Rockefeller and, later...
...Evans 4.E.S., who will take his place in the 158-pound class, was a member of the team two years ago, but was ineligible until recently. The team so far has shown up well, having piled up high scores against M. I. T., Springfield, and Norwich. The only setback came from the Columbia mat men, who won by the narrow margin of a single decision. This will be the biggest meet of the season with the exception of the New England intercollegiate matches, which will be held at the University on March...
Comparative scores give the Crimson skaters a decided edge. Captain Saltonstall's team defeated the Kent School sextet 5 to 2, and ten days later the schoolboy skaters handed Yale a 6 to 1 setback. The Yale Freshmen also lost a 2 to 1 contest with St. Paul's School, while Harvard defeated the Concord sextet...