Word: nine
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University Nine made its first appearance on the field Wednesday afternoon...
...first nine of the Hasty Pudding Club from '79 are: Messrs. J. A. Wright, C. F. Sprague, W. Sheafe, Jr., O. H. Williams, Jr., D. Urquhart, J. T. Bowen, I. T. Burr, J. T. Coolidge, 3d, W. G. Twombley...
...sending of a crew. Now, the inevitable conclusion one arrives at is, that there is no use in trying to conceal the fact that the class is disunited, and, laying aside all considerations of honor or expense, the broad fact stares us in the face that only ninety-nine men out of two hundred and forty, came forth as advocates of a Freshman crew...
...PETITION has been sent to the Corporation by the officers of the Base-Ball Club, asking permission to play matches with other than college nines on Holmes or Jarvis Field, when it is in condition to be used. The reasons urged are both strong and many, enough in each respect, we hope, to insure that the petition be granted. It is perfectly evident that without this our nine must suffer. For by the new regulations of the League Association no games except between the club representing the city and another club belonging to the Association may be played...
...pretext for inserting three pages of base-ball records, in the course of which the implication is made that the game of July 24, 1868, which Harvard won over Yale, was the first contest of the sort between the two colleges. As a matter of fact, the Yale nine of '69 had before that date twice defeated the corresponding class-nine of Harvard; once as Freshmen in 1866 and once as Sophomores in 1867." The carelessness with which the World has treated this subject is remarkable. The Guide-book speaks exclusively of University matches, the first of which between Harvard...