Word: fouled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting of the captains of the nine teams entered for the CRIMSON cups, the following rules were adopted. Games are to begin promptly at 9.30 A. M. Umpires and scorers are to be chosen by the captains of the two opposing teams. In case of foul weather, other dates will be assigned by the manager of the CRIMSON nine. Any nine failing to appear on any date assigned it, will forfert the game to its opponents by a score of 9 to 0. To keep the number of games within reasonable limits, the nines have been divided by lot into...
Again the freshman in his eagerness for artistic effects in wall decoration has been led into error. We say the freshman, for we cannot suppose that anyone but the freshman could be heartless enough to commit the foul theft which we here condemn. The base-ball management with an eye to attracting the attention of ordinarily indifferent students, has as usual begun to print its posters announcing the inter collegiate games in gaudy colors. Hardly had the first lot of these effective placards appeared when they began rapidly to disappear long before the game was played, much to the annoyance...
...awarded to Yale. The Spaulding Hall was adopted, and the new league rules with these exceptions. That the old rules for the pitcher, seven balls, and distance of batter from the plate are retained; also, a man will not be given his base it hit by a pitcher; a foul bound is not out, as last year...
Whatever may be the opinions of the Base Ball Association of the subject, it seems to us that it would increase the interest in their games if they followed the lead of the National Base Ball League, and abolished the foul bound catch. The tendency in the game of base ball during the past few years has been for the fielding and pitching to increase in a marked manner out of all proportion to the increase in the ability of the batsman to hit the ball. It is becoming quite a veriety in a well played game...
...York paper, an authority on the subject, said well when it advocated the abolition of the objectionable rules in these words: "Why this boyish rule is maintained is a mystery. Twenty years ago the same puerile arguments now used in advocacy of the foul-bound catch were urged in defense of the catch on the bound of a fair ball, and with just as much reason. If we are to help the batting, we ought to do away with a style of catch that restricts batting. It is bad enough as it is that a batsman should...