Word: playing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...members of the Nine have returned to college, and may be induced to play next Spring...
H.U.B.B.C.THE Nine held a meeting last Friday, and re-elected the officers of last year: H. C. Ernst, President; F. W. Thayer, Captain; W. Mason, Treasurer; A. H. Latham, Secretary. It was decided to play a few games this autumn, if possible, and practise daily on the Common. Work in the gymnasium will begin as soon as the weather is too cold for outdoor playing, and will continue all winter. It looks now as if the Nine will lose but one of their old men. The batting averages and fielding record for '75-'76 are as follows...
...cent is not the average required, as has been reported, but the Senior who gets a degree without an average of sixty for the year will have calculated with marvellous closeness. The plan, in fact, is to have our last year made up of "all work and no play." Complaints come to us already that the conclusion of the nursery proverb will be fulfilled in our case. The University will lose that social tone for which it has so long been justly famous. Life here will lack the brilliancy that has distinguished it in times gone by, and will degenerate...
...them, so that at one time it looked very much as if the game would be ours. It is much to be regretted that in this game the professionals allowed themselves to act in a manner which, to say the least, was decidedly ungentlemanly. As our Nine will not play with them again this season, we shall not enter into particulars. For our Nine, Leeds batted finely, making two first and three total base hits. Thayer played well at third, capturing two hot liners very handsomely. Thatcher caught without a passed ball...
...Tuesday last the Amherst Nine came to Cambridge to play the second game of the series with our Nine. As the Amherst men had defeated Brown in an up-hill game, making no less than five runs in the last innings, a close and exciting game was hoped for, if not expected...