Word: closing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen played a very close and exciting game yesterday afternoon. The freshmen played a loose game at times but made up for it in the last two innings by their heavy betting. The features of the game were the batting of Willard and the playing of Long. Willard and Potter fielded well for Harvard. The score...
...playing had been well talked over by all those who saw the game, a different feeling began to prevail. Judging from the games which both these freshman nines had played before last Saturday, the natural expectation was that the game with Yale would be a close one, and that '87 wold play a good and steady game. Instead, the errors made by them were numberous, showing loose play and a tendency to become"rattled," and the batting was lamentably week...
...grounds far exceed in beauty the old ball field on Jarvis. The turf on the diamond is very firm and even, and the grass on the out-field is growing well, although there is plenty of room for a second sowing next fall to make it as close as it should be. A new backstop had been built during the day. It is of the most approved pattern, slightly curved and made of matched boards. The paths for the base runners will be laid out as soon as the space for the pitcher and catcher is cleared, the gravel being...
Columbia still leads in the number of prizes taken at the inter-collegiate games. Since their institution in 1876, out of 260 prizes Columbia has won 69; Harvard is a close second with 57; Princeton has lost a tittle, and instead of being only two, is eleven behind; the University of Pennsylvania has increased her score by two, so that now she has 29 to her credit; Yale has gained some on the others, but is still a very poor fifth, having won only 18. The remaining 41 are distributed between ten colleges...
...being an exception. As '87 had played so well with Brown the disappointment was only the more severe. We hope that the freshmen, by earnest work and a little more confidence in themselves, will prove that they are capable, if not of beating Yale, at least of playing a close and steady game...