Word: game
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...baseball practice yesterday afternoon was conducted in the same manner as the day before, with the exception that games of four innings instead of two were played by the nines. The fielding was looser, but the men backed up each other well, and showed a fair knowledge of the finer points of the game. Of the pitchers, Coburn was again the most effective, although slightly wild at times. However, he gave very few bases on balls in comparison to the other pitchers. The following men appointed temporary captains of the four nines...
This afternoon at four o'clock the eleven will line up against Bowdoin for the second game of the season. Bowdoin scored against Harvard last year, and is expected to put up a strong game today. So many members of the football squad have received temporary injuries during the past week that the line-up of the eleven today is very uncertain. While Campbell and Ristine have been laid off, one of them will probably play. Daly has not taken an active part in the practice since the Williams game, and it is not likely that he will play today...
...Princeton and Yale managements have invited the Harvard and Pennsylvania football squads to be their guests at the Yale-Princeton game in New Haven...
...practice yesterday was principally in correcting the faults which the coaches had detected in Saturday's game. After the usual drill at sliding and tackling the dummy, the line-men were coached in breaking through, and the backs in punting. B. G. Waters '94, worked with the line-men, and made everyone charge his opponent and start with the ball. A long time was spent over this work, and considerable improvement was made...
...eleven won the first football game of the season on Saturday afternoon from Williams, by the score of 29 to 0 in two ten-minute halves. In spite of the fact that the line-up was constantly changing to give as many men as possible a chance to play, the offensive work showed a gratifying amount of team-play. Except for an unexpected weakness in the tackles, the work of the team was very encouraging to the coaches for this time of the year...