Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University basketball team was defeated by Yale in the Hemenway Gymnasium last evening by the score of 22 to 8. The University team was completely overwhelmed at the start by the speed and team-play exhibited by its opponent, the score at the end of the first six or seven minutes standing 6 to 0 in favor of Yale. From that point to the end of the first half Yale's superiority was manifest in all departments of the game, the period ending with the score 16 to 4 against the University team. In the second half the play...
...today's game Dartmouth would get the championship for the year, as the has already won from three of the five teams in the league. If Harvard wins today the result of the championship may depend on the result of the Yale game next week, in which case'a defeat would cause a tie with Dartmouth, and possibly also with Yale, should she win from Princeton in New York tonight...
When it was announced that the University relay team would run against Cornell and not Yale in the indoor meet tonight, there was a great deal of speculation as to the reasons for this step. Some said that Harvard and the Boston Athletic Association conspired to defeat Yale by insisting on a short run, but that they were foiled by Yale's withdrawing from the meet. Others volunteered the extraordinary opinion that Harvard foresaw defeat, and decided to cancel the race. Of course these rumors were all wrong. Yale had prepared a relay team for a two-mile run, while...
...Frozen Feet defeated the Canucks 3 to 1 yesterday afternoon in the semi-final round of the scrub hockey series. The forwards on the Canucks team showed such ill-timed and inaccurate passing that their defeat by the comparatively fast and sure work of the Frozen Feet was hardly ever in doubt...
...Garcelon, L. '95 said that the secret of success in all things is preparation; the reason why the football and baseball teams, and the crew won last year was because they kept everlastingly at their work. The track team must defeat Yale this year to make up for the defeat of last year, and in order to do this every man must stay out for practice until the end, and even if a man feels that he cannot make the team, his work may encourage someone else...