Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burns with a longing for the White House every bit as intense as Senator Kennedy's. In everything he ever took up, whether business, politics, tennis, golf or bridge, Stu Symington has been a fierce competitor-keeping his surface unruffled but seething underneath with a wild hatred of defeat. "If Stuart were playing marbles with a six-year-old," says a St. Louis lawyer who has known Symington for many years and admires him intensely, "victory would still be a matter of life or death. He plays everything...
John Harvard's ghost appeared briefly on the scene to predict that the Crimson would trounce the Tigers 60-14 in revenge for last year's 16-14 defeat. He also guaranteed that each cheerleader would do 35 push-ups to entertain the crowd at today's contest...
...enough into Harvard territory to try for a field goal, but each time the kick fell short. The varsity limped off the field still undefeated, but subdued. Two weeks later, Brickley, one of the greatest kickers in collegiate annals, scored 15 points on five goals from the field to defeat Yale single-handedly...
Crimson headlines after the game proclaimed, "Harvard 15, Yale 5. Brickley's 5 Goals from Field Wins (sic) Football Championship. Stadium Looks on a Yale Defeat After Eight Years Waiting." The greatest drop-kicker the game has ever known, Charlie Brickley, scored all 15 Harvard points on field goals ranging up to 40 yards in length. Brickley earlier that season had tallied the field goal that edged Princeton...
...sour grapes," he said. The defeat ruined Yale's perfect record of being unbeaten, untied, and unscored on in five games...