Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mistakes of one's political competitors, but at Harvard we will not even stand for the rumor that those who compiled the provisional voting list intentionally omitted a single name. Electioneering, whether in a private study or in a club, is despicable, for a ticket intended to defeat a man is as bad as a ticket formed to elect him. The purity of election and the loyalty of the class to the men it elects, must be preserved...
...have no excuses or complaints to make in regard to the outcome of the great game, nor can any number of "ifs" soften the sting of defeat. Victory went to the better team, and the Yale eleven earned all the credit that it is receiving by playing a hard, clean game and doing it better than its opponents. The University team was helpless against a style of play which it was not prepared to meet on even terms, and for which it had no correspondingly effective attack...
...spite of the defeat we can not account the Harvard team in any respect a failure. No team that plays always with every bit of its strength and to the best of its knowledge can be called a failure whether it wins or loses. We are proud of the Harvard team for the victories that it won during the season, and of its hard struggle in a losing game...
...long period of preliminary work in preparation for the final games was brought to an end by the defeat of Brown by the score of 23 to 0. The large score was a surprise, but it was due not so much to any unusual weakness in the visiting eleven as to the power and speed of the Yale backfield. The individual playing of the Yale line was remarkable and often brilliant, but lacked unity. Philbin, in the latter part of the second half, caught a punt on his own 35-yard line, and, with tremendous speed, dodged through the whole...
...CRIMSON endorses heartily the movement for better singing and cheering at the football games. In the two games that remain to be played the spirit of the team will count for a great deal and may very possibly mean the difference between defeat and victory. There is no question that enthusiasm in the stands will help to instill this fighting spirit into the eleven...