Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...overwhelming defeat of Saturday was a great disappointment. The Faithful work of the eleven had led us to expect a victory and the beginning of a new era in Harvard athletics. During the first half and part of the second half our team played a wonderful game and victory seemed almost certain. The superior endurance of the Princeton team then began to count and during the last half hour the game was too one-sided to be interesting. The cause of the defeat was quite evident. Our men had not been trained to play a hard game for an hour...
...freshman eleven which played at Andover on Saturday was weakened by the absence of the regular half backs, but this fact is not sufficient to explain the severe defeat which the team received at the hands of the Phillips Academy eleven. The work of the freshmen in comparison withthat of the academy team was painfully slow and loose. The tackling as a rule was execrable, the blocking was not systematic, and the tendency to fumble the ball was very discouraging. The play of the academy eleven was uniformly good; Hinkey and Gilbert on the ends of the rush line...
...largest crowd of the season gathered on Jarvis field, Saturday afternoon to see Harvard defeat Wesleyan. The team played with more life than usual, especially in the second half, and succeeded in scoring sixty-four points against the visiting eleven. The rush line work of the eleven. The rush line work of the eleven was good, and the tackling and blocking were the most effective seen this year...
...practice nor energy has been spared in the effort. In the face of many serious difficulties, Captain Herrick has made a crew of which it may safely be said that they will row a strong race-a crew which even Yale's veterans will have a hard struggle to defeat. If energy and conscientious work count for anything, surely our crew deserves a victory...
...being the oldest athletic contest between Harvard and Yale the boat race has always held the foremost place. A victory in this event is more coveted than is any contest of the year In it the athletic interest of the year culminates, a victory being the greatest glory and defeat the greatest disappointment. We look forward to the race this year with confidence and well earned victory may check the decline of Harvard's athletic prestige that reawaken the old-time enthusiasm which will bring success in the other branches of athletics next year...