Word: game
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale defeated Pennsylvania last Saturday in an eleven inning game by a score of 6 to 5. Dalzell and Graves formed Yale's battery...
Harvard's second game with Dartmouth was played on Holmes field Saturday afternoon. The work of the nine was much more satisfactory than on Friday. The team did not go to pieces as usual in the first inning, and there was not as many pitcher's errors as in the previous games. At present one cannot help noticing the fact that the men do not keep thoroughly alive to their work throughout the whole of a game. Harvard scored six runs to Dartmouth's nothing during the first two innings, but went to pieces so badly on account of carelessness...
...near approach of the championship games brings to mind the inadequate accommodations for the scorers which have been provided in past years by the management. At present there is room for only six men at the scorers' table. The need of ampler space is evident. Last year at the championship games it was often the case that ten or fifteen reporters were obliged to score the game without having the slightest conveniences for their work. We hope that the management will not allow this state of affairs to continue another year. One at least, if not two, additional tables should...
...practice which the nine was to gain from play with professionals this year seems to have resulted in little good so far. The work of the team in the first inning of yesterday's game was simply abominable; no excuse can be given for most of the errors which were made. Almost every man on the team seemed half asleep, and before they became awake again the game was lost. Even as it was there might have been some hopes of retrieving the poor work of the first inning, if the batting had not been atrocious. When a record...
After the first inning, however, the team played well together. The infield showed much improvement over the work in the last game, and the men backed each other up well. As long however, as the nine continues to go to pieces at the beginning of every game there is little chance for a creditable showing to be made...