Word: amherst
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Amherst has a three days recess in honor of the Columbian exercises...
Among the baseball candidates are Sullivan, ex-captain of the Amherst nine, and Abbott who played on Dartmouth's nine last year. Both are trying for third base...
...first half Fairchild played at quarter and although his passing was at times a trifle weak, he played a good game and tackled well. Amherst started off with the ball, but soon lost it to Harvard after an ineffectual V. Gray was given the ball and sent around the right end for thirty yards; Lake took it ten yards farther, then Gray carried it over the line making a touchdown from which Trafford kicked a goal. Score...
...Amherst again failed to gain anything in the V and began looking for weak points in the rush line. A number of short gains were made between Harvard's left guard and tackle and around the ends, until they reached the twenty yard line, where they dropped the ball and a Harvard man got it. After a good many rushes, several of them through holes in the Amherst line made by Acton, the ball was carried down to Amherst's five yard line, where Harvard took a turn at dropping it. They soon regained it however and after a rush...
HARVARD. AMHERST...