Word: balling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nine played a remarkably fine up-hill game in the field, and if Ernst will only use as much strategy in the remaining games as he displayed in the last eight innings, Harvard will secure the base-ball championship...
Lamb, as usual, occupied much valuable time in posing for the crowd, and it would seem fitting to introduce in the new rules for the College championship some regulation in regard to unnecessary delay in the delivery of the ball...
...examination, say nothing about it, or you will be set down as a fool. If you do well, say still less, or you will be considered a conceited grind. If you decide to go into athletics, take rowing, for you know it has become popular, and base-ball seems to have been artificially kept alive by graduates of some years back. Don't, at all events, go to the Gymnasium, unless the new one becomes fashionable; some men have lost the First Eight, Nine, or Ten in that way. And next year send in a contribution, - barring verses on summer...
...Williams Athenaeum is devoted mainly to sarcastic allusions to the Faculty, who, it seems, have been treating the luckless students with great severity. Four Freshmen have been suspended for "'putting a wall between themselves and a college officer,' i. e. tossing ball by East College, and running when they saw him coming." The Glee Club, too, in order to pay off a debt, had arranged to give several concerts in the neighboring towns; but the permission of the Faculty was at first flatly refused, but finally was granted, with great reluctance, accompanied by a reprimand. The same august body...
...overstepped the limits of his physical powers; a man who could tell the round-shouldered, hollow-chested, crooked-legged, weak-backed, how to remedy their defects, and put them at work on suitable apparatus in the gymnasium; a man who could tell the boating-man, the bicyclist, the base-ball player, what he most needed and what he should avoid; and, with all this, a man who by his character would win the confidence as well as the respect of the students...