Word: winning
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Harvard finished the year with a 2-3-2 Ivy mark and a 6-4-3 record overall. Yale's win assures it of at least a third place Ivy tie, and it can tie for second if Penn should lose today to Dartmouth...
...placing our faith, we hope, as the sportsmen always does, that the better team will win. And when all is said and done the better team probably will win, for failures and flukes are as much a measure of a team as splended gains and wonderful charges. If a team fails in a crucial test, it is not the better team at that time, whatever it may have been before or may be after. But, to be frank, the philosophy of hoping that the better team will win is curiously involved with a good deal of believing that...
...passer nor a great runner, he is just "a born winner." That is a disgusting prospect. We all know there is no such thing as a born winner or a born anything else. Winners are made and not born (like Wheaties) and to suppose that Dowling was born to win is strikingly un-American...
...final and absolute and there is no doubt that it has happened. In a football game we have a score to give us concreteness, and yet, looked at from a broader range, nothing gives concreteness to the situation of the team itself. I can see Yale with its 17 wins in a row or whatever floating in space with no soul and no meaning. For Harvard--for the matador then--the task is not only to win with great finality on the field but to put some kind of concreteness into the situation of the Yale team. Destruction...
...really don't understand how you Harvard guys think you can win," challenges one modest fellow. "Have you watched Dowling play this season? Nobody stops...