Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Games shall be postponed on account of bad weather only...
...nine played the Worcester New England League team at Worcester yesterday, and suffered a bad defeat. For the first four innings Harvard played steadily, but after that a large number of errors were made. The professional coaching of their opponents, and the continual shouting of the crowd seemed to rattle the Harvard players, for nearly all the men fumbled badly. Harvard batted finely all through the game, and had the base running been a trifle sharper two or more runs would have been added to the score. The outfielders did not seem to be able to play their positions. They...
...Harvard-Tech. bicycle race Saturday afternoon resulted in a creditable victory for Harvard. Notwithstanding the bad weather and the consequent wretched condition of the roads the race was run in very fast time, and was close and exciting. The two races between Harvard and Tech. This year have both been so successful that it is to be hoped that a similar race may be a regular semi-annual, or at least, an annual event. A plan has been proposed which will easily and effectually accomplish this. The scheme is to have a perpetual challenge cup to be subscribed jointly...
...points, and so on. The course was from the Beacon street extension out around the Chestnut Hill reservoir, then back to the starting point, then again around the reservoir, finishing near the starting point. Bailey, of Harvard, rode three machines in the course of the race and had a bad fall but managed to come in third in spite of it. The race between Greenleaf, of Harvard, and Norton, of Technology, was very close, Greenleaf winning by only about three feet. Here is the score...
...last four years Harvard has been slowly but surely going down in athletics. In the face of this, and in view of bad records, our almost clean score of defeats in the last three years, the mere fast that a mass meeting of Harvard students voted even to consider the question will put Harvard in an odious and contemiuous light. Very fortunately the committee appointed will not have power to decide the matter. It will justly be brought before a meeting of students who will then have considered the matter, who will not be taken by surprise, and who, unless...