Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...cross-country team has been amply rewarded. There seemed to be very little hope for the team after being badly beaten a week or two ago by the Technology runners, but Shrubb has proved his efficiency as a coach of long distance runners by turning out a team to defeat Yale, and interest in cross-country running will benefit by it. Things that are worth doing at all are worth doing well and if Harvard is to have a cross-country team, every effort, consistent with a conservative athletic policy, should be made to put that enterprise on a substantial...
...offence and they raced from one part of the field to the other as no other team seems quite able to when they have their opponents on the run. Twenty-three points were scored to Harvard's fifteen, but it was a case of being spared an over-whelming defeat by the agility...
...teams and a journey to the Middle West to close their season has no terrors for them. This season they plan to go as far west as Colorado, playing several times on the way out. At the end of last season they were ranked high and but for a defeat by Princeton they would have been very close to the top. This year, they have not been beaten and have made the unusual record of scoring ten field goals. Last Saturday, they defeated Annapolis sixteen to six but this affords little basis for comparison as all their points were made...
...play deals with the attempt of a European diplomat of Jewish birth to unite his people and lead them back to Palestine. He is hampered by lack of money, due to the indifference of the rich Jewish bankers and the petty dissensions among his followers, who at the end, defeat him and his cause. Lack of funds compels him to abandon his pro- jected colony in Palestine and turn to the more accessible land of Africa. His followers, however, refuse to accept any substitution for the Promised Land, and at the very moment of his supposed triumph, turn against...
...game entirely, taking the serve at the top of the bound. Pearson played at the back of the court most of the time and received the ball on the fall. Although the sets were interesting and not too one-sided, Niles was never in danger of defeat and won his championship by superior all-round work...