Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...outlook for a strong foot ball team at Columbia this year is very encouraging as there are a great many good individual players in college. The probable candidates for the team are: Hutching of Williams, Monks, Hoyt, Provost, Oakes, Williams, Donwell, Hildreth, Shipman, Post and Brownson. Monks is very desirous of organizing a team and the men will probably be under his charge. Van Wormer '93, of the School of Mines, who pitched for the victorious Williams College nine of '88 will probably play on this year's 'varsity team...
...play four games in succession with the four strongest college teams in the east, an undertaking which will tax to the utmost the playing ability of the whole team. Captain Robinson, however, states that among the new men he has already found several very promising candidates and that the outlook for a strong team is excellent...
...five of last year's team are now attending college but the majority of the old men have not yet started to train, though the weight and hammer men are now practicing. The squad of walkers is unusually large and in fact larger than any previous year and the outlook for some fast men is very bright. It is gratifying to note the number of candidates for the pole vault, as in previous years the interest in this contest was not very great. At present the men are training on the outdoor board track, but as soon as the weather...
...best man on third base. This management will put Beall and Walcott in the outfield. There are several new men trying for the field besides these two. The team seems to be weakest in batting. Murphy, McClung and Beall are the only heavy batters among the men and the outlook for a good batting team seems rather poor...
From the present outlook the intercollegiate athletic games next spring will be much more closely contested than they were last year. At the games on the Berkeley Oval last May Harvard won with 46 points, far ahead of the next college, Yale, which scored 25 points. Princeton had 22 and Columbia 19 points...