Word: nine
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...February 18 a round robin fencing tournament will be held in the Hemenway Gymnasium for the purpose of selecting men for the University team. Nine teams have already entered, and in order that all the teams may be of equal strength each team will be composed of one experienced and two inexperienced men. Each man will fence all the men on the other teams and the members of the team winning the greatest number of matches will be awarded cups which have been offered by several graduates...
...part of both its teachers and its students." That this is not an empty claim is indicated further on in the report by the fact-that the average working time for the four-years' course in mining and metallurgy is fifty-two hours a week, or nearly nine hours a day, and that two-thirds...
...prospects for a successful nine at Princeton this year are darkened by the loss through graduation of the heavy bating outfield of last years team. Of the 1904 championship team Captain Wells, Byram and Reid are still in the university. All three are excellent fielders, but with the exception of Wells, are only medicore batsmen. With this nucleus, however, supplemented by candidates from last years second team, and from the freshman class, the chances of turning out a championship team are good, provided a strong hitting nine is developed. Captain Wells and A. R. T. Hillebrand '00, who will again...
Candidates for the university crew were called out on Thursday, thirty-seven men reporting. The work of the freshman crew is progressing most satisfactorily. One hundred and thirty men reported as candidates for battery positions on the university baseball team and for the freshman nine on Saturday...
...last night unanimously elected captain of the Yale football team for next year. He prepared at the Hill School, where he played on the football and baseball teams. At Yale, he has played on the eleven for three years; and last year was a substitute on the baseball nine. He has also been a member of the university track team for two years, and last spring won the hammer-throw event in the dual games with Harvard, and in the international games in England...