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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rollstones of Fitchburg played a return game with Harvard on Holmes' Field Saturday afternoon. The weather was delightful, and the few spectators thoroughly enjoyed the game. The visitors lacked two of their regular players, and their places were filled by Coggswell, a former member of the club, and by Litchfield, of Harvard...
...game began at three o'clock with Beaman, the former veteran third base-man of Harvard, at the bat. Beaman has played ball considerably this summer and had never failed to make at least one base hit in a game until a week ago Saturday, when he faced Smith at Fitchburg. Bound this time to punish Harvard's new pitcher, he made what seemed to be one of his old-time hits over short-stop's head. But Wiestling ran back swiftly, leaped in the air and captured the ball with one hand, a marvellous catch. In the first inning...
...fortunate in its officers, yet this good fortune has been the result of chance rather than that of the exercise of any special forethought on the part of the members of the society. If in the future our track athletics are to be kept up to the standard of former years, we must continue to place men in control of them whose experience has fitted them for their positions. We trust that the wishes of the officers of the association may be heeded, and that the students may by a generous attendance at tonight's meeting give proof of their...
...picked eleven composed of former St. Mark's men made a trip to Southboro on Saturday and was defeated by a score...
...transaction, greater efforts than usual will be necessary to induce the right men to interest themselves in the sport. The freshman class contains much good material for athletic work, and needs only the proper encouragement to produce an eleven which will not be surpassed by the teams of former years. The preparatory schools this year have sent up several men of high local reputation who won their honors in contests against men now their classmates. The success exhibited in former years in the proper combination of players thus related, may well serve as an example for the profit...