Word: eight
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...They are now at a considerable disadvantage, as they have been in their shell but a week and are not yet used to the new boat. Some changes have been made recently in the make-up of the crew, but the effect of these has been to improve the eight considerably. The men are steadying their shell now fairly well, and are rowing a long stroke with a smooth recover If they get off well they should make a good race for at least part of the distance...
Ninet-nine Weld rowed a short spurt of three hundred yards with the B. A. A. eight yesterday and won by a slight margin...
...management of the Junior Baseball Team has received a challenge from the Yale Junior Team for a game to be played this month. It will be remembered that the Ninety-eight Freshman teams of Harvard and Yale met in football and rowing, but that on account of faculty restrictions the Freshman baseball games had to be given up. As Harvard Ninety-eight took the football game and Yale Ninety-eight the boatrace, each after the closest kind of a contest, the proposition to settle the undecided supremacy in baseball is an excellent one, and there is no apparent reason...
Such a game was held quite successfully two years ago between the Ninety-six Junior teams of Harvard and Yale. We hope that the Ninety-eight game can also be played off, and with equal success...
...Saturday afternoon the Harvard lacrosse team defeated the All-Massachusetts team on Holmes Field by the score of eight goals to none. The Harvard team was much the stronger, and at no time did Massachusetts have a chance of winning. In fact only once was Harvard's goal in danger. Harvard made four goals in the first and four in the second half...