Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly successful trip South, during the spring recess. The varsity won three of four games played on this tour, and several new men performed with a competence not before suspected of them. When the squad returned to Cambridge, hopes for it had risen so high that even an Eastern League pennant seemed within the bounds of possibility...
...middle of April brought a frustrating reversal of form on the part of the Shepardmen. Sound thrashings at the hands of Navy, Northeastern, and Springfield effectively dashed the hopes of the week before; and subsequent (close) losses to Army and Pennsylvania put the Crimson out of the Eastern League race for good...
...then, should a team with such good pitching and batting have lost eight games and failed to play at even a .500 pace in the Eastern League...
...course, no team that compiles a 13-8 record overall, wins the Greater Boston League championship, and defeats both Princeton and Yale, could be called a failure or anything like it. Superficially, indeed, the season has been quite a success.... But the memory of those five losses in crucial Eastern League games is not easily effaced. It is hard to escape the feeling that things might have turned out a lot better than they actually...
Yale is losing more than the varsity, and perhaps not picking up as much. At any rate, next May's Yale match will no doubt once again decide the Eastern and Big Three championships, and Barnaby and his men hope to pick those crowns back up again. They should have a fine chance of doing...