Word: mets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...book entitled "A History of Yale Athletics," by R. N. Hurd, '88, has made its appearance and met with a most favorable reception. It consists of some 150 pages and is divided into five parts under the heads of Rowing Foot Ball, Base-Ball, Track Athletics., and Tennis. The tables give every intercollegiate game, practice and championship, winners of championships since the formation of associations, comparative scores of Yale and her opponents, the Yale foot-ball and base-ball teams since they were formed and the freshman contests with Harvard and other freshmen...
...champion lacrosse team of the world, the Cornwalls of Canada, met Harvard yesterday afternoon and showed how lacrosse can be played. It was their first game of the season, but the men showed no signs of lack of practice, or fatigue and outplayed Harvard at every point. The game was called at 4.11, and in 15 seconds the first goal was thrown by Kennedy for Cornwall. For the next fourteen minutes the ball was kept well in Harvard's territory, and at the end of that time Kennedy got another goal from a scrimmage. Our men began to get discouraged...
...freshmen met the sophomores yesterday on Jarvis, and met with their first defeat, Ninety-one's change battery was put in and did fairly well, but the game was lost by the weak batting of the freshmen. Ninety led until the eighth inning when Ninety-one made three runs on two hits and several bases on balls. At the beginning of the ninth, things looked dark for the sophomores, but they managed to bunch several hits and, by the aid of Babbit's excusable passed balls, brought their score up to seven. The freshmen were shut out in the ninth...
...faculty has met again without deciding on the overseers' vote on the restriction of athletics. The faculty, for slowness of action, seems to rival the United States Congress.- Tribune...
...Richards of Columbia met with a serious fall after one of his jumps, breaking his knee...