Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year, should fit into the Varsity picture this pring. He is a steady, fast fielder but has heretofore proved pretty weak at the plate. If he can improve his hitting a place in the infield is waiting for him. Bob Fulton, Freshman catcher and captain, is a flery ball player and a potentially good hitter. He will have to work, however, for Eliot Bacon, Jayvee backstop, seems to be coming fast and by spring may really be in the running. Merrill, Freshman third sacker, is, like Heckel, another smart fielder, but is as yet too weak a batter...
Last spring the Varsity ball team failed to cop the Eastern Intercollegiate League title due to a split with Yale in the League games. In the first game of the crucial series in which Harvard needed to grab both contests to take the crown, the Eli sewed up the top position by winning a sensational 14-inning game, 7-6, at New Haven on June 22. On June 23, on Soldiers Field, the Crimson assured themselves second place by staging a comeback, overcoming a large Yale lead, and winning 10-7. With the League games over, but the Yale series...
...spectators gasped when flashy Halfback Andy Uram, who beat Nebraska almost singlehanded last year, missed a try for extra point after Minnesota scored a first-quarter touchdown. Minnesota made just two more fatal blunders. At the beginning of the second quarter Bill Matheny let the ball bounce out of his hands, Nebraska recovered it on Minnesota's 24-yd. line, plunged through for its first touchdown. At the .start of the fourth, after Minnesota had scored a field goal, Substitute Harold Van Every fumbled a punt, Nebraska's Bill Callahan , grabbed it. Two quick passes were enough...
...Exeter tally came within the first three minutes of play in the first quarter. With the ball on Harvard's 16-yard line Gardella kicked; Exeter's left end Wilson rushed the kick and blocked it, the ball rolling into the end zone. Before Gardella could bring the ball out of danger he was tackled and the score read two to nothing...
...again stopped the Freshman march. In the second quarter Harvard fumbled on its second down on the Exeter three yard line after a 52-yard march of five first downs. And again, Gardella was on the six-yard line ready for a score, when he fumbled and lost the ball...