Word: hope
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...earnestly wish the nine success in the contest. We hope that they will go into the game neither with the lack of confidence that makes play unsteady, nor with the excess of confidence that makes it careless...
Snap, dash, courage, enthusiasm, these are the qualities that count. With them, Harvard has a show for the game; without them, there is no ground for hope...
...hope that the men on the nine will understand the spirit in which this is written. Our disposition to support the nine is unchanged; it is simply impossible to have regard for the truth and to write otherwise about the Pennsylvania game. The nine must do better, else it will bring the baseball reputation of Harvard into derision...
...half there seem to be few men outside of Harvard and Yale who can hope to finish up near the front. Kelsey of Pennsylvania has run in about 2m. 3s., and Orton from the same college should go very fast if he is not used up after the mile...
Both hurdle races should be fought out by the Harvard and Yale men, though Michigan is said to have a low hurdler who has made fast time. Harvard can hardly hope for quite as good luck in these events as she had at New Haven, as Capt. Lyman fell in the finals of the high and Cady was shut out in the trials by meeting both Bremer and Garcelon...