Word: cricket
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee of blues" regulates the granting of the 'varsity uniform in each particular instance. This committee is composed of the leading 'varsity captains,- the presidents of the boat club and athletic club and the captains of the cricket club and of the Rugby and Association football teams. They usually award a "full blue" to the members of the five teams they represent; and in addition to the chief representative in court tennis and rackets. On the athletic team, however, the "second strings" get only a "half blue." This differs from a "full blue" in that the sweater has no blue...
...independent league of the best New England athletic clubs. The clubs which will probably make up the league are B. A. A., Newton A. A., Providence A. A. and Portland A. A. The plan is to have teams from these four clubs compete in track and field sports, tennis, cricket, football, water polo, baseball and other branches of sport...
...cricket team was defeated by the Brockton eleven, at Brockton, Saturday. The score was Harvard 20, Brockton 70, for 6 wickets. The poor showing of the Harvard eleven is probably accounted for by the fact that Comfort, Lippincott and Garrett, three of the best bats on the team, did not arrive until Harvard's innings was over...
...Exeter Club, the Southern Club, of the Chess and Whist Club, of the Electrical Club, St. Paul's Society, the Fencing Club, Shooting Club, the Harvard Union, was vice-president of the Reform Club, a director of the Memorial Hall Dining Association, and played on the University Cricket team. He was '92's representative in the mile walk in the annual class athletic games, and took several prizes in this event...
...cricket eleven will play its last match of the year Saturday against Brockton, at Brockton. The eleven has not yet played any game this fall, so that some idea may be formed from this match as to the prospects of next season's eleven. Last spring Harvard defeated Brockton in an exciting match by one run. Lippincott and Perkins are the two promising new men. The former played for the first Philadelphia Club eleven and the latter had the second best batting average on the Lowell team...