Word: freshmen
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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COLLEGE NINE.- The following men be on Soldiers Field at 3.30 to play the Freshmen: Gregory, Jenney, A. Davis, Slade, Vincent, McVey, Litchfield, Foster, Sears, Morse, Galbraith, Dayton, Manning, Sterling...
...Freshmen were playing a very listless game in the field, and, although everyone was hitting the ball, only one base hit was made. One chance for a put out was lost owing to a misunderstanding between the third baseman and the shortstop...
...race of the Weld crews on Saturday resulted in a hard-won victory for '98, '99 finishing only half a length behind. Ninety-seven succeeded in beating out the Freshmen in the last half mile and thus finished third. The time was 10 minutes 23 1-2 seconds,- rather slow considering the favorable conditions...
...Freshmen were severely handicapped by an accident which might easily have put them out of the race. Pierce, captain of the crew, who rowed 5, broke his oar-lock, but, without interfering with the stroke of the rest of the crew, he cleared his oar and jumped out of the boat. He was picked up by the launch. Notwithstanding this loss, the crew held well together and almost succeeded in beating the Seniors...
...race early resolved itself, as did the class race, into separate struggles for first and third places. All the way down the course '99 and '98 were closely together, and it was only by a small margin that the Juniors pulled out the race. Until nearly the end the Freshmen were ahead of '97, but the loss of their man proved too much for them and '97 won by half a length...