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Dates: during 1870-1879
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CANDIDATES for the Foot-ball Eleven are requested to appear on Holmes Field every...
...base-hits by Latham and Wright, a sacrifice by Tyng, and damaging errors by Hutchison, Carter, and Smith. Howe led off in the seventh inning with a base-hit; Nunn tipped to Smith; Thayer and Tyng hit safely, Latham flied to Hutchison. Ernst then hit safely over left field, bringing in all the men on the bases and gaining two bases himself. Harvard won the game by superior fielding...
...Nine, chafed by the severe criticism of senseless writers, and ridiculed by would-be authorities on base-ball matters, has proven itself capable of deeds surpassing all the former triumphs which Yale has gained on the ball-field." - Yale News, May 27, 1878. Amended June...
...fumble. Harvard went to the bat to face Carter for the last time as the Nine of 1878, and the way they batted that ball was delightful to behold. Tyng, after Thayer had gone out by Walden to Downer, hit safely for two bases in the direction of left field, and took third on the inability of two thirds of the Yale nine standing one behind another to stop the ball fielded in by Brown; this had no effect detrimental to the earning of Tyng's run, as no chance was offered to put him out; and Latham, Ernst...
...that the loss of Tyng in the second game was the sole cause of Yale's heavy batting. To the graduates of the Nine of 1878 the Crimson bids a last farewell, and wishes them as successful a career through life as they have met with on the ball-field; to the undergraduates we look for a nucleus for the Nine of 1879, and extend to them the hearty support of the Crimson in the future, as it has been extended to '78 in the past...