Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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When it came to the final heat. there was a good deal of a fight for Coxswain Baker, who belonged properly to all three crews. Finally it was decided to draw lots, and the lot fell to crew 2. Crew 8 took in Whiteside to steer for them, and Fay coxswained crew 9. Crew 8 had the inside course, crew 2 next, and crew 9 outside. Crew 2 took the lead and finished half a length a lead. It was rather dark to distinguish which of the other two was ahead. Mr. Kennedy, the referee, thought that crew...
...Captain Perkins and his men. Today the crew starts off for its new quarters with the full confidence of the college behind it. Harvard has seen a great series of victories this year; and it feels sure that it is represented by a crew which will make a magnificent fight in order to keep up this good record...
...runs at the end of the second inning which Harvard in her half of the sixth for a moment overcame. But in the second half of the sixth Yale made six more runs, and for the remaining innings the result was hardly in doubt, though Harvard made a desperate fight at the last moment. The Yale freshmen batted harder than ours and bunched their hits better. The Harvard freshmen, on the other hand, fielded much more cleanly than their opponents. Several of the errors which they did make, however, were very costly. A few brilliant plays produced great and merited...
...balls and two wild pitches. In trying to cut a man off at second he threw wildly to Dean, whom Hallowell failed to back up well, and the runner came home. On the whole, however, our men played better than for several games past. and fought a plucky uphill fight. Except in the fourth inning, Brown played finely throughout the game...
Their temperate life admirably fitted them for their mode of warfare-the hand to hand fight. Their battles were won, not by strategic movement, but by their individual efforts. Their armor was two curved pieces of bronze for the chest and back and greayes for the legs, and the chariots which they used were light and very...