Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...last. Moreover, we have maintained an unbroken and unusually cordial relationship with Yale, in spite of having beaten her in more events than we have ever been able to do before over the same period of time. Throughout this period, our crews have made a clean sweep. In football with two 0 to 0 ties, we have won two games to her one. Moreover, in this sport there has been organized a system which, if we are fortunate enough to perpetuate it, will enable us to contemplate the future without undue anxiety. In track and baseball our record is only...
Fourteen years ago, in the academic year of 1898-1899, Harvard was successful in every major sport against Yale. This year we have made an auspicious beginning toward a repetition of such a clean sweep. The opportunity now remains for the other major teams to follow the example seen in the football and cross-country victories...
...Intercollegiate Championship at Ithaca. For the first time since the Intercollegiate run was established the Harvard team is picked to win. In the first race of the year the team won a hard-earned victory over the Cornell team, the Intercollegiate champions for the past three years. The "clean sweep" in the Yale race a week later is not only one of the greatest victories in the history of Harvard athletics, but is a feat unprecedented in the annals of cross-country running. Sure of its strength but not over-confident, the team which will today endeavor to wrest from...
...University tennis team made a clean sweep in the match with Brown on Jarvis Field yesterday afternoon, winning the six singles and three doubles without difficulty...
Exeter made a clean sweep in the early rounds of the tournament, and had two men left in the semi-finals. With 14 points to its credit, Exeter made sure of retaining the school championship won last year, before the semi-finals began. Volkmann and Malden are tied for second with 5 points each, and St. Mark's and Rogers High are tied for third with 4 points each...