Word: catcher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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William Bartholomew Young '13, of Rockland, catcher, entered College from Arlington High School, where he was a member of the school nine. He was regular catcher on the University team two years ago, but did not play last year. He is 22 years old, 5 feet, 9 1-2 inches tall, and weighs 144 pounds...
...Burdett '12S., catcher, comes from Andover. This is his second year on the university nine. He is 23 years old, 5 feet, 9 inches tall, and weighs 160 pounds...
While sliding to home plate in the practice yesterday afternoon, H. E. Reeves '12, of Cambridge, regular catcher on the University baseball team, sprained his ankle and it is feared that he will be out of the game for three weeks. During his absence W. B. Young '12, who caught two years ago, will occupy the position...
...Yale Alumni Weekly announces two interesting changes in the playing policy of the Yale Baseball team this year. Only the captain and catcher of the nine will be permitted to talk while the team is playing in the field, and the coach will not direct the men when they are at bat or on the bases...
...report on Athletics some time ago. He said, "Baseball is on trial as a game for gentlemen. If it is the duty of patriotic students to make all the noise they can while the visiting pitcher is facing their representatives, if it is the duty of the catcher to 'steady' the pitcher by remarks that (incidentally) unsteady the batsmen, if baseball must, as the Yale Alumni Weekly puts it, 'degenerate into vocal competitions on the part of the players, or into efforts to rattle the opposing pitchers on the part of the grandstands,' the sooner we have done with...