Word: base
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announcement that the athletic committee has given its consent to the employment of a professional base-ball player as trainer and coach for our Nine during the coming year will not be a cause of surprise to those who know that the most liberal and progressive members of the faculty have openly favored the plan during the past few years. The three members of the faculty selected to represent that body on the athletic committee, after a patient and thorough investigation of the subject, have been convinced from the numerous letters received from former captains of our base-ball nines...
...know from experience that a nine with scientific coaching can make more progress while the frost is coming out of the ground than any untrained team can make in an eternal summer of practice. It is the beginning which counts and is so vital to base-ball, and this is especially true of a college nine, for development must needs be very rapid...
...anything of an objectionable character take place in our meeting with professionals. We never associated with them at all when off the ball field. They had no influence whatever with any of our men. On the other hand, we derived very great advantage from our games with them in base-ball proficiency...
...would say that our experience with professional coaches in base-ball, rowing and track athletics has been a satisfactory one, and we see no reason why such should not be employed by you. So far as we can see, the engagement of professional trainers has always been for good to the men, and never harmful as to morals or otherwise. The undergraduates are at liberty to play any team they please, and there has never been any objection to their playing professional teams...
...hope the freshmen will give the question an open. fair discussion, for there are reasons why a race, as well as a base-ball and a foot-ball contest between the freshmen of the two colleges, is desirable. We are convinced, however, that when the question is looked at fairly, and even favorably, for a race with Yale, the objections are too weighty to admit of the contest. We therefore strongly urge the freshmen to decline the challenge...