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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual boat race at St. Pauls, the Shattucks won the first crew race and the Halcyons the second and third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/5/1889 | See Source »

...Haverford will probably be close. The Haverford team is stronger in bowling, while our eleven has better batsmen. In fielding the teams ought to be about even. The Haverford men have been working since Christmas, under the instruction of Woodcock, the college professional. Their captain, Bailey, is on the first eleven of the Merion C. C. He bowls fast round arm, with a good deal of curve and break. Martin, a slow bowler with a both off and leg-break is on the first eleven of the Young America club. Muir one of the best batsmen is on the eleven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Haverford Cricket Game Today. | 6/5/1889 | See Source »

...past Harvard has played two games with Haverford, both at Philadelphia, and Haverford has won both, the score of the first game being 74 to 102, and the second 65 and 48 for 8 wickets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Haverford Cricket Game Today. | 6/5/1889 | See Source »

...action of the manager in not providing money for the expenses of the team, without relying on the Yale guarantee, was careless and culpable, and forms the excuse put forward for playing the game. In the first place the game should not have been played. If the weather was considered too bad for the game, the game should have been forfeited and money telegraphed for or borrowed by the careless manager. But if a game was necessary, it should have been played in a straight-forward, manly way. That the captain of the nine should adopt the policy of delaying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/3/1889 | See Source »

...base hits, McClung, Munzesheimer; first base on balls, by Sturtevant 5, by Wood 8, by Brown 3; first on errors, Harvard 1, Yale 3; struck out, Harvard 5, Yale 3; passed balls, Hulley 8, Heffelfinger 2; wild pitches, Wood 14, Sturtevant 1; flies caught, Harvard 2, Yale 4; fouls caught, Harvard 1, Yale 3; out on bases, Harvard 3, Yale 4; left on bases, Harvard 3, Yale 2; time, 2 hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale, '92, 28; Harvard, '92, 1. | 6/2/1889 | See Source »

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