Word: win
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that the laurels so nobly won are as nobly retained. It is our good fortune that the captains of both crew and nine remain at their old posts during the coming season, for they are both men who will not rely on the prestige of former successes to win future victories; and it is our further good fortune that six old men will sit in the next year's boat, and that seven veterans will guard the base-ball laurels twice won from Yale. The vacant places will indeed be hard to fill, but there is a host of material...
...glorious one, a lively breeze being the only objectionable feature. The Nines were promptly on the field, each presenting its full strength, and all showing by their preliminary practice the results of careful work, and vigorous determination to win or die hard. But great are the uncertainties of base-ball! Yale entered the contest confident of victory; a confidence theoretically well founded, but practically disastrous to reputation and pocket. Harvard, on the other hand, had learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work. This feeling, with...
...pitch throughout. The race was won not by luck or by chance, but by the long practice and the severe training which the crew have kept up during the year. Each man on the crew deserves the thanks of the University for the untiring efforts each has expended to win the success of which we are all so proud. To Mr. Watson, the coach, we owe a debt of profound gratitude which we most gratefully acknowledge; but the one man to whom Harvard owes most for the success of her oars is the captain, Mr. Bancroft. His earnest labors...
...Rifle Club are in excellent discipline, and there can be no uncertainty about the result of our match with Harvard." Indeed! Is Harvard so sure to win...
...around the tree a base-ball match between the University Nines of Yale and Harvard. Then from five o'clock to ten we shall have the regular traditional exercises of Class Day. The amount of festivity which will prevail during these hours is unfortunately an uncertain quantity. If we win the match, the spectators of the contest will adjourn to the various spreads with light hearts and excellent appetites, the evening will wear happily away, and when the lanterns begin to fall our guests will reluctantly depart from the scene of revelry. If a cruel fate decides the contest otherwise...