Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...costly mistakes and to Yale's powerful defence and superior generalship. Although the Harvard team was backed by the prestige of an unbroken series of victories this fall and was strong enough to make twice as many first downs as Yale in Saturday's game, yet Yale kept off defeat by an alertness which recovered every Harvard fumble occurring within scoring distance of Yale's goal...
Such a demonstration will, therefore, accomplish two things. It will convince the team that behind it in the stands on Saturday there is to be a cheering section determined to defeat Yale. And it will pay no slight tribute to the policy that wins games and wins them fairly and squarely...
...spite of its defeat by Princeton, the Dartmouth team comes to Cambridge today with a spirit of determination and a confidence in its ability that is strongly echoed by the student body behind it. Dartmouth men feel that their team possesses a power that has not yet had a fair opportunity to display itself. It is the power that was evidenced in the Colby game, strikingly shown in periods of the Williams game, and brought out with the determination of a strong team following the Princeton touchdown in New York...
...will have had this season to evince its interest in the score at New Haven on Saturday. Furthermore, every member of the class cannot but appreciate to a certain degree the amount of drudgery necessary to bring the team to the eve of the Yale game with only one defeat. And thirdly, the 1914 Freshman team has a high criterion to emulate: 1912 broke the long line of Freshman football defeats by Yale, 1913 proved equal to this standard, and now it remains for 1914 to do all in its power to continue this excellent record...
...this afternoon at half-past three and march to the Field with his class. Only in this way, by a display of splendid enthusiasm, can the team know that the class is behind it to a man and hence derive a confidence and spirit which will brook no defeat...