Word: muff
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Monday Princeton defeated Georgetown by a score of 12 to 2. Yesterday Georgetown won from Yale, 14 to 2. Yale would not have scored at all but for a bad muff by Carlton on third base. This was in teh fourth inning. Carter pitched seven innings for Yale and made a poor showing. Trudeau pitched the other two. In the fifth inning Yale made in succession a three base hit, a single, and a double, and still failed to score. In the sixth inning, with two men out and three men on bases, Dowd, the Georgetown pitcher, made a home...
Harvard earned two runs in the first. Hallowell beat the ball to first, Highlands made a single, and both scored on Frothingham's hit. In the second Contrell failed to put the third man out, and let in two runs, then Reese's muff added two more. Harvard made four hits, scoring five earned runs...
...second and Trafford's hit was all that Harvard could do. Landis started off the third with a hit, but was thrown out on second. Flitchner went out on a fly to Hallowell, and Ellis on strikes. Abbott made a hit and reached third on Flitchner's muff of Sullivan's fly, but was left there...
...second earned run by a hit, two stolen bases, and a single by Hallowell. The other run was made by Corbett. Abbott and Sullivan scored in the eighth, both getting bases on balls, Abbott stealing second and third, and Sullivan second, and both coming home on Millard's muff of Corbett's fly to short center. This ended the scoring, though Hallowell made a very pretty two base hit in the next inning...
...turtle-back gave Yale 5 yards, but L. Bliss could not get by Lewis, so Butterworth kicked, and gave his ends another chance to throw a Harvard back. Harvard got 5 yards for that work, and Brewer kicked from the 20 yard line. No muff this time, and Yale had the ball at the centre...