Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...formed the freshman battery in the fourth and fifth inning. The work for the freshmen was all done by catcher, pitcher and first base, as the Somevilles rarely hit the ball, being puzzled by '87s delivery. The batting of '87 was good. but the pitching they had to face was not difficult, being rather slow. F. Coolidge and Wiestling led in batting...
These remarks and this new remedy seem especially timely at present, for we are now facing this "mucker" problem in all its immensity, and we shall continue to face it and groan under our inflections in all probability until the November winds sweep the "mucker" away, unless some such strong measures are adopted...
...When I returned to Yale the boating prospects were exceedingly gloomy. There was no crew and no promising material with which to form one. Moreover, there were no practice boats, the boat-house was almost abandoned, and there was an utter absence of enthusiasm. In the face of this blank outlook I got a number of men together and gradually injected the new principles into their minds. Their progress was so slow that it was not until three or four days before the race that the men struck the keynote as a crew. Compared with the other ten crews which...
...English system, and no professional coach, won the college boating championship successively in 1877, 1878 and 1879. In 1880 and 1881 Yale, through the efforts of William Wood, who was one of my crew, go back to the system I introduced and won easily both years. In the face of the fact, however, that nothing in the world but an excellent system had given them the prestige during those two years, Yale in 1882 and '83 employed M. F. Davis, a professional oarsman, to coach the men. Although the crew each year was physically superior to any that ever before...
Substitutes, A. J. Bowen, 162 lbs. and W. Baldwin, 156 lbs.; coxswain, J. L. Whiteside, 110 lbs. The bow and No. 4 do not face their blades with the others, No. 2 swings crooked, while 3 and 4 dip too deep on the catch. No. 5 looks out of the boat too often and 6's oar "slivers out" at the finish. 7 and 8 "clip." When these faults have been corrected, the juniors will be in condition to make a hard struggle for first place...