Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With the re-establishment today of training tables for men of the baseball team and the crew, the Athletic authorities of the University have taken a step toward the improvement of results in competition of these athletics. On the diamond and the river the University may expect to see a marked change in the future. But what of Harvard's achievements on track and field? Immediately the cry arises: "Why worry about the track team? Did they not make a favorable showing at the Penn games and swamp Technology in Saturday's meet...
...There was a time when Harvard's elevens and crews under nondescript coaching systems lost to Yale with doleful frequency. Later, some serious attention was devoted to the conduct of athletics at Cambridge with a resultant systemization and rigidity of control. Ergo a lessening percentage of defeats on field, diamond, stream, etc. Which epoch was more beneficial in its effects upon the pride, morale and scholastic incentive of the Harvard undergraduate? In which epoch was there the greater tendency toward exercise in the open? Personally I do not know, but I do know that these, among other things, are points...
...such a middle course inclines to be a weak one, but in the present instance this does not hold true. The men who have given their time and energy to athletics and who have represented the University to the best of their ability, be it on river or gridiron, diamond or rink, deserve recognition of some sort. This acknowledgement should be of a special kind, to exist only for the duration of the war, and to be superseded by the regular insignia when peace comes and the University resumes its natural course. Whether the change should be to decrease...
...star of the engagement, getting a home run and three singles in five trips to the plate. Peckham's home run which came in the third inning with two men on bases, was one of the longest hits on Soldiers Field this season, reaching the infield of the University diamond before coming to a stop. M. P. Davis and E. S. Hardell were the leaders of the Freshman attack, each getting three hits, the latter's including a triple. T. J. Meehan, with a three-base hit, and R. B. Shaw, with a double, were the other 1921 players...
...first game of the season to be played on its own diamond yesterday afternoon, the University baseball team showed a complete reversal of form and defeated the Freshmen by a score of 11 to 4. The first-year men were out-classed in every department of the game, particularly in fielding, in which the University nine showed great improvement, making only two errors...