Word: play
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...good man there, though it was hoped that he would occupy his old position as shortstop, but owing to an injured knee the captain thought it safer to place him where there is less chance for a renewal of the injury. Belcher will cover 2nd base and Lenton will play at short-stop. Third base will be covered by Sullivan, who is a freshman. Storrs, Burns and Houghton, will constitute the outfield. Thayer, who played last year and did such good work at the bat, refuses to play this year much to the regret of the college...
Harvard will play the University of Pennsylvania at cricket at Philadelphia on Saturday, May 25th...
Each club will play one game with every other club, thus making a total of twenty-eight games in all, and as a close to the season, a team selected from all the clubs of the association will play a game on Holmes field, June 15 with the winner of the Exeter-Andover game, for a trophy offered by the Harvard baseball association...
...meeting of delegates of the interscholastic football association was held in Boston Saturday afternoon. Delega is present from Andover and Exeter, reported that the nines of those schools would be unable to play a regular schedule of games. It was decided to have eight schools represented in the association, and a schedule of twenty-eight games was made out to be played by teams from those schools, The question was brought up whether to have the winner of the Exeter-Andover game play a picked nine from the association, or the champion nine. The only other business was the election...
...sixteen best players of the college in a league match, deserves to be adopted. While this plan would subtract from general use a rather large proportion of the good courts, the loss would be more than counterbalanced by the advantages gained, and especially the stimulus to better play. It will become an object not only to win future tournaments, but to make a creditable showing in them; and thus many of the less prominent players will be spurred to harder work, and the general standard of tennis at Harvard will be raised. To the best players the advantages will...