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Word: winning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is no reason why Harvard should not win the next two games from Yale. The Cambridge boys are the better batters, and don't seem to have much fear of Stagg. - Globe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/10/1887 | See Source »

...better team than Harvard. It is ridiculous that such a state of affairs should exist. Can it be that the solution lies in that lackadaisical spirit which is said to pervade Harvard society? May the event of to-day's game prove that energy, not the best material, can win at base-ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/8/1887 | See Source »

...showing as they did in the game here. It is now examination time and very hard to leave college, and the 'Varsity game with Yale is another reason for staying in Cambridge to-morrow, but all the Ninety men who can possibly do so should accompany their nine. To win the game the nine needs the support of the class, and with this support will give Yale a hard fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/7/1887 | See Source »

...contest for the athletic cup is different from the other contests, in that a victory is a victory over a dozen colleges at once; every effort should be made to win this victory and when the means for making a good showing and possibly of being victorious, are as simple as they are, it seems as if we ought to contribute generously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 6/4/1887 | See Source »

...only started, back to a respectable showing in track athletics. The bottom was reached last year. This year one second, and a first, only won gloriously to be lost unaccountably, may prove a nest egg from which to hatch a cup some day. Princeton luck is inexplicable. We win and we lose, and no one knows why we win or why we lose. In college athletics fortune favors whom she favors, and that is all there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Letter. | 6/4/1887 | See Source »

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