Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stagg's leaving the team. Yale's popular and plucky catcher, however, saw that if Stagg became a member of the Bergen Point nine the college would not suffer as much as if he accepted a professional offer, and gracefully consented to the change. Stagg and Dann, without doubt, form one of the strongest amateur batteries that ever appeared on the diamond, and by securing the former Bergen Point, having won a game from the Nassaus, has an almost sure thing in the race for the amateur championship.-Globe...
...systematic cheering given by the students, and conducted by appointed leaders." For some years I have watched the growth of this method of encouraging a nine or team, and have wondered whether it would or not call out some comment from the students or alumni. I do not doubt it serves as a stimulus to the players, but to me it would seem to do so at the sacrifice of far more desirable results. Why should athletics be supported by a pronounced and well led body of claquers? What merit or credit in the playing when backed by a mechanical...
...trials of their capacities. The weather has been anything but favorable. The track has been frozen and snowed upon until it is as far from good condition as the men who trained upon it. There are still almost five weeks before the intercollegiate games, and there is no doubt that the men under the able training of Mr. Lathrop will get into condition to take the places of Baker, Bradley, Chamberlain, Smith and Wheeler of last year's team, who are no longer in college...
...freshman class. We need mention only the chief reason for its acceptance and we feel sure it will suffice. A well-trained freshman crew has become indispensable for developing men for the University boat, a fact which the experience of the past few years establishes beyond a doubt. The success which a crew attains in its freshman year is largely a measure of what it will do afterwards. Both for its own sake, therefore, and more especially the University, the freshmen should decide to accept this challenge. The only question to be decided is in regard to the expense, which...
Froissart relates a story that shows the hero of it to have certainly been very powerful, and it would be difficult to find a man of the present who could execute a similiar act, though I have no doubt he could be found. The story is as follows...