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...excellent. There is a marked absence of men who are under or over developed. There are 326 men in the College and Sheffield School, a considerable increase over last year. Only 17 per cent, of the freshmen use tobacco, while 25 per cent. of the Sheffield men smoke. The heaviest man in the class of '92 weighs 200 pounds, against 192 1-2 pounds in '91 last year. The lightest man weighs 86 1-2 pounds. The tallest man is 6 ft., 1 5-8 in.; the shortest man, 4 ft., 9 5-8 in., which is about three-fourths...
...crew, and this number will be considerably increased later in the season by men from the football team. The men practice rowing daily under the instruction of W. J. Farquhar, coxswain of the '91 crew, using the '88 barge by squads. The average weight is about 147 pounds; the heaviest candidates are W. B. Stearns, 172. and S. L. Cromwell, 170; and the lightest, R. C. Robbins, 122. The following men are now in training: J. H. Kindder, (captain), N. Rantoul, R. Cobb, G. Lowell, M M. Smith, M. Porter, S. L. Cromwell, F. N. Watriss, C. P. Cheney...
...table shows our nine fielded wretchedly, with the exception of a few players. In batting, Harvard was extremely weak, the hits of our players being made mainly in the games with Princeton. Five Yale players and one Princeton man rank, in the average of base hits, higher than our heaviest batsman, Willard; while the majority of the names of Harvard players appear at the bottom of the list. McConkey, the weakest batsman of the Yale team, ranks ahead of six of Harvard's players. This lack of ability to bat may be considered the chief cause of our defeat last...
...Yale defeated the Williams nine at New Haven by a score of 9 runs to 4. The fielding of both nines was good, eight errors being made by each. The Yale men batted hard, making nine hits, bunching them so as to earn five of their nine runs. The heaviest batting was done by McConkey, McBride and Brown. The fielding of Stewart, Durgin and Luce were noticeable features of the game. The following is the score by innings...
...game as a whole was less dull than most of those played this year. The batting of both nines was fair, Harvard of course doing the heaviest hitting. The fielding of the visitors was much sharper than that of the home team. The heavy hitting of Quacken-boss for the home team and the fielding of Duryea at second base for Williams were the noticeable features of the game. Brown, the left fielder of the Williams team, made a beautiful running catch, which elicited prolonged applause from the spectators. The game was called at the end of the eighth inning...