Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard, Allen and Phillips played magnificently, and Smith did very well. Nichols and Tilden batted very heavily. On the whole the nine, barring their base running, which was pretty poor, played a sharp and brilliant game. may they do the same on Saturday in New Haven...
Amherst played a loose fielding game with the exception of Taylor and Kimball, the latter of whom played a most brilliant game, putting out nine men in left field. their batting was not very heavy, but they succeeded in bunching their hits to great advantage. Sullivan and Stuart led the record. Harvard's fielding was not as good as one might have hoped to see, but Baker played a fine game and Allen and Winslow did well. their batting was very heavy and would have been much more effective, had it not been for the magnificent fielding of Kimball. Phillips...
Hard drinking and brilliant swordplay are the chief requisites for glory at the universities. A German student who does not duel (they all drink) is socially ostracised ; while he who excels in both fencing and drinking becomes at once the idol of his fellow students and the secret admiration of the town maidens. So strong is the passion for fame that the veriest trifles are construed into portentous insults and men have been known to tear open wounds partially healed, that scars might be formed as souvenirs of past encounters...
Brown, with the exception of Doron and Basset, played a weak fielding game, and were unable to bat Winslow to any effect, although Seagrave and Basset hit heavily. Harvard played a sharp and brilliant fielding game...
...Beacons were unable to do much with Baker's pitching, though Welch and Richardson batted heavily; but their fielding was excellent. The most brilliant feature of the game was a beautiful triple play in the eighth inning, by Welch, Coolidge, Sawyer and Richardson. Harvard fielded fairly well. Baker and Tilden, of the freshman nine, played well together. Baker's pitching proved effective, and was well handled by Tilden, whose fine throws to second are especially worthy of comment...