Word: ball
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Trinity is "proud" that their nine was beaten in its game with Yale by the same score that Harvard was; and their interest in base-ball is correspondingly increasing...
...while Princeton's, through her inability to hit Ernst, remained severely modern in its proportions. The game was rendered still more tedious and uninteresting by the tire-somely slow movements of Princeton's pitcher, who, without making it at all effective, busied himself with a purposeless churning of the ball until one grew nervously weary in waiting for his labored delivery...
...graduating class. The outside world will not be expected to make themselves visible until three in the afternoon. At that hour the favored fair will be seated on the soft boards which surround Holmes Field, and they will witness, in place of the exercises around the tree a base-ball match between the University Nines of Yale and Harvard. Then from five o'clock to ten we shall have the regular traditional exercises of Class Day. The amount of festivity which will prevail during these hours is unfortunately an uncertain quantity. If we win the match, the spectators...
...hope of their success on the 22d. But they must make fewer errors in the field! In no important game recently have they made less than ten errors, and in some many more; a fact that does not harmonize with victory, or suggest convincing arguments for success. Our base-ball article elsewhere shows a very good record of prosperity, but it also shows a total of errors that is not at all encouraging. The last game, however, reveals a marked improvement, and we trust this will be the fielding model for future games...
...clock, P. M., the champion game of Base-Ball between the Yale and Harvard Nines will be played on Holmes Field...