Word: freshman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...regard to the disgraceful exhibition made by our freshman nine at New Haven on Saturday, we publish today a communication from a member of the team, and a statement in regard to the pitcher. In yesterday's CRIMSON we perhaps censured the pitcher too severely, when, as it turns out, he was acting only under orders from the captain. But our opinion of the action of the freshman team as a whole is unchanged. No such disgraceful thing has been done before in the history of our athletics. That it was done by a freshman team is a palliating circumstance...
Under these conditions the game was commenced, merely to satisfy the Yale men, and also to get the $100 guarantee from Yale which was necessary to pay the expenses of the nine home, as the freshman manager arrived in New Haven with only a few dollars in his pockets. Under these circumstances and under other pressure Capt. Brown concluded to play the game. Yale took their outs and had control of the ball while it was dry, and therefore Harvard was quickly disposed of. But when Wood received the ball it was almost impossible to control it. When Captain Brown...
Great censure, I think is due to the manager of the freshman nine, who went to New Haven with so little money that he was dependent upon a Yale graduate to get his men back to Cambridge. During the few innings that were played one Harvard player was taken with the chills and was obliged to be driven immediately to the hotel...
...addition to this we have a statement, which we are not allowed to publish. signed by Captain Brown of the Harvard freshman nine, saying that Wood acted solely under his orders...
...connection with to above we publish the following statement from the pitcher of our freshman nine...