Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman team has been beaten on its own grounds by their opponents from New Haven and the record should be repeated again to-day. The nine has played fairly good ball thus far, but its great weakness lies in the fact that at times it gets badly "rattled" - a fault which must be entirely done away with. May to-day's score prove that the coaching the team has received from its captain has not been given in vain...
...memorable first game with Yale of last year. It is all the more disheartening, because little or almost nothing, can be said in apology of it. As was the case in our first championship game, wretched base running and one or two costly errors lost us the game. The fault lay not so much with the coachers as with the base runners. True, the visitors' catcher was a hard man on whom to steal bases, but a number of our runners were very slow, and could not have handled them-selves much more awkwardly than they did, had they tried...
...whole, the crew hang badly at the full reach. Besides this fault the men must be very careful to row more smoothly, the blade work especially being very rough...
...letter to Harvard of Sept. 30, was so loosely worded as to convey the impression that it was a positive offer to play on the dates mentioned, the Williams manager was careless. Carelessness is, however, a very different fault from that with which Williams was charged at the base-ball meeting...
...college are here for scholastic instruction, and as in school the teacher must keep order, so the faculty must use the same secondary care over the outside life of the students. But they are not here to sit in judgment on a man who may commit a fault, to try him, and finally acquit or convict him. But where to make the distinction? here lies the difficulty. As the University is now conducted, they certainly have the right to investigate certain matters, and how are they to tell when the case is proper for their hands and when...