Word: nines
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...government of Harvard-Yale freshmen baseball and football games, and letters from Mr. Garrison, L. S., and Mr. Folansbee, secretary of Harvard, '92, urging their adoption, were submitted. After discussion the matter was placed in the hands of a committee composed of the captains of the university nine, eleven and crew, and two members of the freshman class. The class is heartily in favor of some arrangement which shall do away with the annual disagreements, but an opinion prevailed among the members of the class that, having completed their series with Harvard, '92, they could not fairly bind future classes...
July 22, 1870, same course; Yale 18.45: Harvard 20.30. This closed the series which on the whole had been favorable to Harvard. The wearers of the crimson won seven of the nine races, and are credited with the fastest time, 18m. 2s. The next three races were rowed at Springfield, Mass...
...long and uninteresting game was played on Holmes field yesterday afternoon between the 'varsity nine and the professional Lowell team. So few spectators attended the game that there was some excuse for the utter lack of life which the Harvard team showed. The fielding was by no means clean, and all the infielders made very bad errors. The batting was even weaker, while the coaching was contemptible. At no point in the game did the home team show the slightest energy. In the Yale game on Thursday, Harvard will not have the slightest chance if she plays a game anything...
Princeton played the last of her intercollegiate games on Saturday and was beaten by Yale after a close game. Her nine has made a good showing this year, having won one game from Yale and two from Harvard. Three of the other five games were lost only after hard struggles. As the record now stands Harvard must win one game from Yale to tie with Princeton for second place, two games to take second place alone, and all three to win the championship. It is a formidable task but it is a possibility. Hard, steady work with good support from...
...game with Yale which was postponed from the 8th on account of rain will in all probability be played on Thursday, June 20, the date offered by the management of the Yale nine. Captain Willard has telegraphed that he will accept the 20th, so that unless some unforeseen contingencies arrive to prevent, the game will be played here next Thursday...