Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must say I think Mr. Codman was most unjust to the college in attributing our agitation against semi-professional graduate players to our defeat. He shows that he is not up in the facts. The movement was well under way, as your readers most of them know, long before the Princeton game. The credit of it belongs to Harvard, and I fancy if we here at Cambridge were to inquire into its beginnings, we should have to admit that our faculty and their committee started the movement in the strictures they imposed on the members of our team and those...
...purely a Harvard scheme? Has not Harvard by withdrawing hurt rather than bettered her position? The answer to one question is the answer to both. The trouble with Princeton has no don't called out an expression of much needless ill-feeling. It is impossible, however, despite our recent defeat at her hands, that Princeton should put into the field a fair team capable of competing with Harvard. It is merely a question of resources-nothing more. Princeton, therefore, in order to maintain her place in the league has been forced to call upon her graduates or upon outsiders...
...graduate of Harvard, a former member of university teams, a friend to Princeton and fair play, I feel I have the right to voice the sentiment and questioning of many men of Harvard, who, with the stories and facts as now presented, cannot help feeling that the smart of defeat, despite protests to the contrary, has had undue influence in the attack on Princeton. I have, I regret to say, played on Harvard teams when I blushed at the unfair play of the men next to me on the Harvard side, and if the attempt is made to eliminate every...
...been more evenly matched and the closeness of the score which indicates that only one scoring point was made in the whole game shows how closely fought the struggle was. Yale's rush-line was a trifle quicker than Harvard's and to that fact may be attributed the defeat. The Yale men were wonderfully quick in dropping on the ball and by their agility in that direction they gained the play several times when Harvard rushers should have taken it. On the other side Harvard was superior in blocking and several times Yale was compelled to make four downs...
...eleven of which we may justly be proud. In practice the men have trained hard and faithfully, and in the great games they have made every exertion to win. A closer or better contested game than that of Saturday could hardly be imagined. In so slight a defeat there is no disgrace. It can safely be said that no Harvard eleven has ever played better football than was played by the Harvard team last Saturday...