Word: win
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...win but one race after years of denial...
Until he should win...
...inning was disastrous to us, for after whitewashing our nine the Live Oaks scored five unearned runs on errors of Leeds, Thatcher, and Tyng. The next two innings added nothing to our score and one to that of our opponents. In the eighth it looked as if we might win. Leeds and Wright led off with base hits, Dow followed with a slow grounder towards third, which the pitcher threw over the first-base man's head, letting in Leeds and Wright and sending Dow to third. Ernst then struck a grounder to the short-stop, who threw...
...whatever may be the result of the race with Yale and the regatta at Saratoga, it is not too much to say that we shall send out a crew better trained in every respect than any that has been seen here since we began to row. Whether they win either of the races they take part in, we must be ready to learn from their experience and to apply, in future years, the lesson thus learned...
...except in jest, that such a position would be more honorable for Harvard; and on second thoughts even the proposer must acknowledge, that, if considered aside from the honor of the position, such a stand taken by Harvard cannot be to her advantage. If she waits to win a race, working in the Association all this time in but a half-hearted way, then no one can blame her enemies for crying that her wish to withdraw has arisen solely from her want of success; and thus she loses all credit for her more honorable motives, which are, after...