Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lewis and Sears of the second nine were tried at first base and left field respectively in place of Foster and Lynch, who was substituted for Rand after the latter's injury. Notwithstanding the loss of Rand and the reversal of positions the 'Varsity defeated both Brown and Holy Cross by heavy hitting and clean fielding. Since the Holy Cross game, Harvard has been having very light practice, which owing to the graduate coaching has done much to round off the defects of the team...
...which have fallen to the lot of the present nine, and began to acquire 'Varsity form at about the same period in their training. The Princeton games were scheduled rather later than this year, and thus the showing was better, but the series with Brown and that with Holy Cross, which came at an earlier date, were lost. The record of the Yale nine had been about equal to that of their rivals, and although they have been successful against Princeton, the actual standing of the two teams in point of victories and defeats is practically the same...
...Ferry there was no sign of life. The Yale crew remained quiet, giving no indication of any intention to move. A few minutes before the time set for the start, heavy clouds loomed up in the northwest and the wind shifted to that quarter, stirring up a nasty, cross sea. It began suddenly to rain in the east, and in a short time a heavy storm was raging that made any attempt at racing impossible...
...HOLY CROSS...
...Holy Cross...