Word: nine
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...approaching season are welcome. The seriousness of our entrance into the world war was nowhere more deeply appreciated than in collegiate and amateur athletics. The leading men on the gridiron and the diamond disappeared from their wonted places to take up the grimmer game for the sake of country. Nine of the ten ranking tennis players of 1916 are enlisted in the service of the nation, and the tenth is indispensably engaged in the manufacture of munitions. But it is now appreciated that the maintenance of the standards of our amateur athletics is of great importance as an auxiliary...
Results of former years show that the University debaters have won a great number of victories over both Yale and Princeton. The University has won 20 contests against Yale's seven, and 14 to Princeton's nine. Yale and Princeton, however, have been much more evenly matched, the former having won 12 times to the latter...
...baseball season at the University took a forward step yesterday when both University and Freshman teams lined up for the first time this season in two three-inning games. Each nine played its respective second team. In spite of the difficulties which the cage presents, both engagements were fast, and the batting ability which the majority of the men displayed was unusual for so early a date...
...Team B, the University winning 2 to 1, and the 1921 aggregation 3 to 1. T. H. Gammack '20 and C. F. Havemeyer '21 both showed up well behind the bat, while R. E. Gross '19 and J. B. Wolverton '20 at shortstop and second base for the University nine fielded in good style...
...Captain W. W. McLeod '19 of the University nine has been ordered to report at the Army Aviation Camp at Princeton on March 16, the University team will be without the services of its most experienced player in the coming season. McLeod played second base on his Freshman nine two years ago, and last fall caught for the informal University team. McLeod prepared at Malden High School, where he played for several seasons on the school team...