Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fourth set proved to be by far the most interesting and exciting of all. Each man continued to win a game a piece till the score stood at five all, when Sears beat the next two games, thus winning the set and match...
...date of the first freshman game with Yale has been fixed and is now little more than a week distant. This game takes place on our own grounds, and eighty-nine should put forth every effort to win. Yale has this year an unexceptionally strong freshman nine, if we may judge from the accounts which come from New Haven; but by keeping in strict training, and by practicing steadily, there is no reason why our freshmen should not make things ???ively for their opponents. But training and practice must be attended to if eighty-nine wishes to make a good...
This afternoon the Harvard nine meets Yale for the first time this season. The game with Columbia, disheartening as its effect has been, must act as an incentive to greater efforts than have yet been made. Harvard ought to win to-day, and with a proper spirit of confidence and presence of mind success can be gained. The record made by the Harvard nine of last year must not remain unparalleled in the list of our athletic victories...
...Yale does not win in the annual boat race with Harvard this year it will not be for lack of work and professional coaching. Last year the crew had only amateur instruction, and not so much of that as they needed, while their rivals certainly enjoyed much professional advice, no matter how they got it. Yale's defeat, therefore, left her sore - and this year John R. Chainey, of London, a professional oarsman, is instructing the 'varsity eight. So, if they don't have the genuine English stroke this year the blues never will How that will compare with Harvard...
...they make a hit, it is generally by chance. '89 must stop fooling at once and make a decided brace if they wish to make a showing against the Yale freshmen. They ought to realize that they have an inter-collegiate series to play, where "monkeying" does not win a game. They have not only the honor of their own class, but in part the reputation of the college to sustain...