Word: cobb
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Bates pitched for Harvard and did unusually well, keeping down the hits and using great judgment. He was well supported by Cobb, as well as by the rest of the team, whose playing was all the time sharp and active. The errors made were excusable, being made on very hard balls to handle. Hovey's throw in the ninth to cut off Schoff at the plate was the finest seen on Holmes Field for a long time. The double play by Bates, Cobb and Dickinson was also a brilliant piece of work...
...second inning Bayne led off with a hot liner to Hovey, which was thrown wild, thus letting him to first. Lansing stepped up and almost without thinking hit a little pop fly, which so surprised him that he was unable to run and was tagged out by Cobb. Schoff got his base on balls, and Bergen followed, being hit by the ball. Coogan hit a sharp ball to Bates, which the latter threw to Cobb, shutting out Bayne's run, and Cobb made a double play to first, leaving the two men on bases. Harvard went out, in the second...
...started off with a hit which Hovey failed to handle, and went to second on a wild pitch. Bayne sacrificed and Thomson took third only to be thrown out by Bates on Lansing's hit. Lansing was forced to second on Schoff's hit, and was there put out. Cobb got to first on a single, in Harvard's half of the fourth, but was left there...
...series of mishaps. Schoff struck out and Bergen got his base on balls. Coogan advanced him a base by a sacrifice, and then Vail followed with a hit to right field, which struck the track boards and bounded crooked. Corbett threw to cut off Bergen, but Cobb stood in his way and was knocked down, the ball going over to the bleachers. By the time the ball had been fielded, Vail had scored the second run for Pennsylvania...
...Cobb...