Word: copings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...into a good player with practice. It seems particularly unfortunate that a game with Yale could not have been arranged this year, as the Harvard freshmen for the past five years have been unable to beat the Yales, and now for the first time the team seems able to cope with them with favorable results...
...first game with Princeton in Cambridge will be played this afternoon. Our nine was so unfortunate as to suffer defeat at their hands in the championship game, but it has since clearly shown itself able to cope with stronger adversaries and will, we sincerely hope, show its true strength today. The visitors have fallen several degrees since they last met our nine, and it is very probable they will soon have to resign all hopes of first place for this season...
...following concerning Yale's sentiment about her freshman nine we clip from an editorial in the News: "It is high time that the freshmen awoke to a fuller realization of the need of their improvement in ball playing before they undertake to cope with the Harvard freshmen. Surely they cannot desire to break the long series of Yale's triumphs in these contests, nor yet can they afford to be still longer debarred from the fence. They must also know that the whole college watch the result of this game with interest. By it, we are able to judge...