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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princetonian offers a silk hat to the member of the Princeton nine who makes the first home run in a championship game...
...wholly in favor of Harvard. On three occasions Harvard put men out at the plate, but the umpire declared them safe. Bates pitched a very good game under the circumstances. Henshaw's work behind the bat was grand, while Boyden did well at the bat. The work of the home team was fairly steady, but they were unable to bat Bates at critical points. The score...
...account of the threatening weather, there were but few spectators at the game between the Amherst and Harvard freshmen, on Holmes Field, Saturday afternoon. Except toward the very last, the game was dull. It was marked by the wildest batting and worse base-running of the home team and the bungling work of the Amherst third baseman and left fielder. The pitcher, catcher and second baseman played the best fielding game for Amherst. For Harvard, Dean's work at second was excellent. The batting of the nine as a whole was terribly weak, seventeen men striking...
...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...
...sixth, reached first on a bad fumble by L. Price, went to second on Gallivan's scratch hit between left and centre, to third on a passed ball, and scored on Boyden's sacrifice to second. Gallivan scored on a hit, a wild pitch and on error at home by Ames. Bates took first base on balls, took second while King was arguing with the umpire, third on a sacrifice and reached home on a wild pitch. Campbell reached first on an attempted put-out at home, stole second and came home on King's wild pitch. Durell opened...