Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Inability to bunch hits was the cause of Harvard's defeat. In the fifth and eighth innings with men on bases, hits would have brought in runs, but Bole and and Blair both proved most effective at such critical times...
...series is this season much more stable than last. Although starting with the same number of entries there has this year been but one withdrawal from the series, and that before any games were played, while last season there were several instances of nines dropping out after their first defeat, and causing a general mixup in the arrangement of games. Under the new system no inconvenience could be caused by any withdrawals, as the nines below would simply move up in the list, but in spite of this it is gratifying to note that the "bumping" system of competition...
...Harvard Golf Club defeated the Brookline Country Club on the latter's links, Saturday afternoon by the score of 34 to 4. This score was partly accounted for by the absence of five of the Country Club's regular players. Curtis's defeat of the crack golfer, Herbert Leeds, by 2 up was very promising. The individual scores follow...
...honorable position in the college world which is accorded to some athletic leaders. To strain to the utmost every muscle, to tax every mental resource, and to exercise all the manly qualities which are demanded in the athlete, these are surely worth while in themselves independent of victory or defeat. Harvard has had many captains who have done these things, but few who have done them as disinterestedly as Goodrich. His final act of self effacement, however necessary it may have seemed to him and to the coaches, can but add to the respect which is felt...
...defeat of the 'varsity may be attributed directly to the failure to hit the ball. After the improvement shown in recent practice, it certainly seems reasonable to expect more than four hits off a pitcher of Curran's ability. Moreover two of the four hits made were scratches and Lynch's triple to right field was the result of Ericsson's misjudgment...