Word: hardding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Taken all in all, Harvard made a very creditable showing and by her playing justified the advisability of a southern trip in its effect of rounding out a nine and giving the men the advantage of some practical experience early in the season. The game was won by steady, hard driving of the ball, fast base running, and Morse's heady, aggressive pitching. Plunkett and Jansen were together found for nineteen hits, most of which were clean and well placed. Haughton easily topped the list with a record of five hits, two of which netted two bases...
Lord Howe Poore (correspondent for London Hard Times), J. F. Brice...
...nine was given a good deal of hard work during the week, the mornings being devoted to batting and the afternoons to the more general work of fielding and practicing plays. A considerable change has been made in the make-up of the nine. Fincke has gone to short and Cropley to left, with Jaynes centre and Whittemore or Bertholf right. Putnam has taken Fincke's place at second...
...would have seemed almost as likely that the eight would be disbanded entirely, as that a Harvard crew would be sent to New London this June without Goodrich. No similar occurrence could create deeper or more widespread regret, and most Harvard men, whether oarsmen or not, find it hard to reconcile themselves to the step. Nevertheless, since Goodrich has himself seen fit to withdraw, and since the coaches approve his action there is nothing for it but to accept the inevitable, and admire the spirit in which the resignation was made...
Perhaps when the subscription was first proposed we did not make its aim sufficiently clear. As we then expressed it, the nine should receive these marks of appreciation "because of their hard and faithful work which brought the season to so successful a termination." In other words, the idea is give the men these prizes because of their victories over the representatives of the college which always has been and always will be Harvard's greatest rival,- Yale. Such success is the end which all Harvard teams have in view, and if gained, the preliminary contests leading to its attainment...