Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...class of 1909 has contributed a great deal to the baseball team for the last four years as no less than nine men from the class have been on the team. Of these, six are playing at present, and their loss will necessitate a complete reorganization next year. The places to be filled will be catcher, first-base, short-stop, left-field, and centre-field. Another pitcher will also have to be developed to help out S. T. Hicks '10, who will be the mainstay in the box next year. The only members of this year's team besides Hicks...
...several of the best men who played against Yale in 1908, Burr, Cutler, Hoar, Kennard, Nourse, Ver Wiebe, White, and Withington, will be lost by graduation, the greater part of the "H" men will be in College next fall. Some good men will be eligible who could not play last season on account of academic standing, as well as strong material from the championship Freshman team. The positions for which new men will have to be found, are centre, quarterback, fullback and possibly...
...place at right end will probably be filled by Houston or Harding. R. C. Brown '10 is another possible end. For guards there are Dunlap and West, who played against Yale, as well as McGuire and good Freshman material to draw from. Smith, who played at right halfback last year and Harding may both be developed into good centres...
Class Day week and the fact that six members of the team are to play their last home game against Yale should provide sufficient inspiration, but there are other and more substantial reasons for expecting much of the team. The men work well together and they all know baseball, They have been well taught and they have been infused with the right spirit. Coach Piper has trained them in the rudiments and in the fine points of the game with untiring devotion. His sympathetic intimacy with the men under his charge has had much to do with the season...
...Philbin '10, right field, of New York City, prepared at Westminster School. Last season he played first base. He is 20 years old, 5 feet, 10 1-2 inches tall, and weighs 172 pounds...