Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Herald of last week Thursday, had a long article on Stagg, Yale's crack pitcher...
...save Yale from certain defeat. There are several weak spots in it now, but good coaching ought to remedy these within the next nine days. Most of the men in the rush line are really phenomenal players, but still they cannot play the whole game any more than a crack battery can win a championship for a poor base ball nine. Pratt and Wallace are to be the end rushers. The former was substitute in the '87 crew, and the latter has made a great reputation during the last two seasons by demonstrating that he could hold his own against...
Knowlton, Andover's crack catcher, who has done such good work at the bat this season, intends to enter the Harvard Law School next September...
Hyneman, one of the University of Pennsylvania crack pitchers, has never pitched a game in his life...
...favor of admitting the Yale freshmen to the race, while Yale will favor the admission of the Columbia 'Varsity Crew to the great Harvard-Yale race, which has become the leading sporting event of the season in this country. Columbia had a crew last year that defeated the crack eight from Cambridge and would undoubtedly have given Yale a hot race had the two crews been permitted to meet Columbia has attained such excellence in all branches of athletics that there seems to be no reason why her crew should not be considered as worthy to row Harvard and Yale...