Word: haven
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nine. It is true that the team will suffer severely by the loss of so many good players from '77; but there seems to be no reason why, with steady practice, a team could not be formed strong enough to bring back the laurels which were lost at New Haven last year...
...very fine. Carter did not prove as effective as before, but he is always a hard man to hit. The rest played rather poorly, as the score will show. Their occasional brilliant plays were fully recognized, and applauded by the audience in an impartial and courteous spirit, which New Haven audiences would do well to imitate. The umpiring was excellent, and thoroughly satisfactory...
...proposed rifle-match with Yale will not take place, as the H. U. R. C. could not send a team to New Haven by the night train, and expect the men to be in good enough condition to shoot a rifle-match on their arrival, on which condition only the Yale club accepted our challenge; and they have finally refused to shoot at Springfield or any other intermediate place...
...that they get little praise when they win, so much is it taken as a matter of course; but when they unfortunately lose, they are followed, not with sympathy, but with fault-finding and audible imprecation. But in this case they must expect little sympathy. They went to New Haven confident themselves of making at least a close game of it, and carrying with them the unbounded confidence of the College in their complete success. Had they been beaten in a close and exciting game, we could be patient and call it hard luck; but they have not even this...
...interrupted; "I ain't that sort. What I did was to take four or five pools on Yale before I left here; they were twenty-nine to six, you know, before the game. Then I went down to New Haven and bet the rest of my pile, and lost it, but then I raked in on the pools enough to cover my shorts...