Word: winning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale confidently expected that their nine would win on Saturday, as the following from a Yale paper, shows: "As this is our first game with Harvard which counts for the championship it is of especial interest. From the result of the exhibition game at Cambridge we can be reasonably confident of the result of today's game, still a glance at the score of the exhibition game will show that a little more luck in bunching the hits by Harvard would have altered the score materially. A close game may be expected, and all who can, should go and give...
...enough to hold the record for a hundred years. The pitcher is to be awarded each year to the class which has in that year won the greatest number of races on the Charles, no student rowing in more than one race. Thus no class would be likely to win which had not trained ten or fifteen crews. A genuine competition for this pitcher, with half the college in training, would furnish the livliest feature of the college sports. Fortunately, lack of ground, which hampers the extension of the other sports, would not be felt here; the Charles is large...
...such a step does not constitute a dangerous precedent for future crews. While it may be held to be still an open question as to whether the fast stroke is a better one than the old one, still, to most minds, the proof of the stroke is whether it wins or not. And if a crew believe they can win by adopting this stroke, we can rest assured that they will adopt it, if permitted to do so. It is very obvious that if the crews are all to abandon the regular Harvard stroke which has been proved...
...which has, moreover, been weakened recently by the loss of a very promising oar. According to the best boating authorities, the race between the three upper lasses will be the most interesting and exciting which has been rowed for years over this course, as each crew seems determined to win...
Although the recent defeat of the freshman nine was, perhaps, a surprise to the college, the lesson to be deducted from it is obvious, -'87 must work to win the games with Yale. Yet the nine need not feel disheartened by this game. Many things were against them ; the pitching of Andover was probably more effective than any they will have to face in the subsequent games, and the condition of the ball was such as to render good fielding almost impossible. But to win with Yale, the nine must play with more snap and life, it must be able...