Word: elis
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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John Harvard and Eli Yale might well sit up in their graves and take notice of the baseball battle that their learned sons wage today in New Haven. What could be more appropriate for this endeavor at brainy baseball than Friday, the thirteenth? The game may indicate how compulsory athletics will develop baseball players from the scholarly students. Perhaps the brains of a modern Aristotle may develop a new, elusive spit ball curve; perhaps a Phi Beta Kappa athlete may invent a method for getting home run hits every time at bat Who knows...
...Kappa will leave at noon today for New Haven, where they will meet the Yale high-stand men in a baseball game at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The local honor students have been in training for two weeks, and are in excellent condition for the contest with their Eli rivals. A close struggle is expected tomorrow...
...strongest baseball teams in New England. With nine veterans on the squad, every one of the infield positions is covered by an experienced man. Yale has twice gone to defeat before the Brown attack, by scores of 2-1, and 5-1. In addition to the Eli nine, Trinity, Rhode Island State, Amherst, Columbia, New Hampshire State, and Holy Cross have succumbed to the Brunonians. However, Holy Cross, in its return game, and the Boston Braves have scored victories over today's visitors...
...University Freshmen scored their three runs in the third inning when L. A. Hallock reached first on an error by the Eli third baseman. E. C. Lincoln walked, and A. J. Conlon drove them both in on a triple along the first base line. Conoln scored the third run when Warren, the Eli second baseman, juggled a fast grounder hit by S. R. Smith...
...Bullard '20, who was on the mound for the second team pitched consistent ball for the first three inning, but weakened in the fourth to the extent or allowing two singles and a triple which drove in the first three Eli runs. Two more hits off Bullard in the first of the fifth scored another run, and gave the visitors a 4-3 lead, which the second team overcame in their half of the inning, when singles by J. J. Coolidge, Jr., '20, and G. S. Baldwin '21, and a double by J. Holmes '21 resulted in two runs...