Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...commenced to rain long before the game was called, a crowd came out to the field which nearly filled the bleachers and the grandstand. About fifty Harvard supporters were gathered in the right of the granstand and a somewhat smaller number of Princeton students at the left. Harvard's cheering was the stronger. The Yale men did not cheer at all, but applauded every good play...
...side had scored. In the third Princeton had been retired in one, two three order. Harvard had Cook on third with two men out. Scannell hit a ball which struck inside the diamond and bounded squarely over third base. Cook came in. The Harvard men were just beginning to cheer when umpire Hartley shouted "foul" and sent Cook back. Then Trenchard broke his finger and time was called. Before play was resumed the rain came down in torrents and the players all got under cover. After waiting the required 30 minutes the umpire called the game off. Wiggin told...
There was quite a crowd gathered in front of Leavitt and Peirce's to cheer the nine off yesterday. The team left Boston in the four o'clock train...
...Harvard is to make a respectable showing against Princeton tomorrow, there will have to be a change in tactics. The time for the nine to work and the students to cheer is from the very beginning of the game, not when the game has been lost. If the nine had started out to work desperately and if the students had heartily supported them in the Pennsylvania game, the score would never have been one to one at the end of the first inning. In the sixth inning, with the score seven to one against them, the nine began to show...
...Cooperative at ten o'clock this morning. The work of the team has at all times been faithful and spirited, and every man can be counted upon to spend every whit of his power to bring victory to Harvard on Saturday. Few students can be in New York to cheer there; nearly all can gather this morning to show, by an enthusiastic send-off, their confidence in the team. It gives an encouragement whose force is by no means spent in the interval before the games...