Word: game
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to unfavorable weather, the Freshman nine was compelled to cancel all but one of the games arranged for the spring recess. The game with the College nine was won by a score of 8 to 6, mainly through Dill's poor pitching in the first inning when the Freshmen scored five runs...
...lacrosse team took a trip to Pennsylvania last week, playing two games. The first with the Swarthmore team at Swarthmore on Friday resulted in a tie, as did the same game last year. Each side made three goals. Taylor, Ring and Fay did the scoring for Harvard. In the second game with Lehigh at Bethlehem on Saturday, the Harvard team was defeated by a score of 3 to 1, Ring securing Harvard's single goal...
...Varsity nine returned to Cambridge on Saturday evening from its southern trip with a record of four games won, one lost and one tied. In the tie game the University of North Carolina refused to continue after Harvard had scored the tieing number of runs. After the discouraging showing of the team early in the season the work of the 'Varsity nine was an agreeable surprise. The southern teams were all stronger this year than at the corresponding times last year, several of the nines having begun regular outdoor practice as early as January...
...most encouraging feature of the work of the infield was strong team play and the steadiness with which the men maintained their form. McCornick was injured in the first game and his place taken by Reid until Clark joined the squad. Then Foster was put on first, his old position on the College nine, and Clark played at third for the rest of the trip. Haughton is rapidly falling into his new position at second and before long should justifly the action of the coaches in playing him there. Laughlin's work was always of a high standard...
...team, as a whole, is fielding very well, but the batting is not what it should be. The infield plays a pretty steady though rather slow game. In the outfield, the men are fairly sure on fly balls but, with the exception of Sears, do not cover enough ground...