Word: badness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certainly failed to make as good a showing as any for some years past. But one more championship game is to be played, and even if we are successful in that, we shall have won but three games out of eight. This result is due in part to the bad luck which has disabled from time to time some of our best players. The one point which has lost so many games is the weakness and lack of judgment which almost every man has shown at the bat. Few men can bat with confidence and steadiness unless they have...
Mild sarcasm of the Courant regarding Harvard: "Not to carry a silver-headed cane to breakfast is considered in 'bad form,' and the man who does not own a real bull-pup is an outcast." We are crushed...
...Harvard played a good game, but not a good enough game to beat such a nine as she had to face Saturday. The batting was weak except in the fourth inning when we earned one single run. The fielding was good, although two or three bad errors were made. Allen and Nichols worked well together. In the second inning Allen performed the remarkable feat of striking three men out in succession, pitching but eleven balls the entire innings. Baker's play at short was accurate and brilliant, his error being due to the interference of a base-runner. Lovering...
...mile bicycle race there were seven entries. Norton, of Harvard, did not compete, on account of his illne???. One of the contestants made a bad start and in consequence all but Rood, of Columbia, and Hamilton, of Yale, were thrown down. Rood took the lead followed closely by Hamilton. The other competitors again mounted their machines and followed as best they could. Despite the evident unfairness of this, they were allowed to finish the race. Reed of Columbia took third place. On the second lap Reed passed Hamilton and drew up on Rood. On the third lap he passed Rood...
...just started, the university used to win about as many events as any other college, but now we only average one first prize a year. Although we derived consolation when the dead heat was pulled with the winners of the tug-of-war last year, from our bad luck in drawing for the trial heats - alone preventing us from winning, as we really had the strongest team...