Word: loses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ball was Exeter's on Harvard's 15 yard line, but the Academy team could make no further ground and preferred to lose the ball on four downs rather than kick. Gray and Lake did some good work. and then Trafford punted to the centre of the field, Vail broke through and made 15 yards with the ball. Burgess then worked his backs to good effect through the right end of the rush-line and took the play well down the field towards Exeter's line. Lake made the touch down. No goal...
...balls and Hovey's two begger, and another in the fifth on a very wild throw by short stop to first base. But the great scoring for the home team was made in the ninth. Then Hallowell, Hovey, Alward and Cobb each got base hits. The Clydes seemed to lose their control over the ball, and four errors in rapid succession, aided by these hits, brought the score up to eleven for Harvard...
...This change certainly did contribute much to the triumph of Saturday, but the remarkable improvement which our team showed in every particular would have probably been sufficient to gain the day without it. The freshmen played with snap and confidence, showing no tendency to go to pieces or to lose their heads on the strange ground. A very small contingent of Harvard men went down to see the game, but those who did go cheered lustily and helped not a little...
Most of our runs were made in the sixth inning, when seven successive base hits brought in seven runs. The Vermont men seemed to lose their heads and base after base was stolen by daring running. In the seventh inning Vermont changed pitchers. The new man proved very wild and in two innings gave five bases on balls and made three wild pitches. Nevertheless we were unable to score, none of the necessary sacrifices being forthcoming...
...will take a lively interest. Dr. Dwight describes the first game of tennis played in New England (in 1875 at Nahant), when the enthusiasm of Dr. Dwight and his opponent for the game was so great that rainy afternoons they would play in rubber boots and coats rather than lose a day, and thence traces the history of the game up to the present year...