Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...athletic club house was discovered to be on fire, but after a slight delay the flames were put out. The utmost courtesy and pleasant feeling were maintained throughout the game, and when the fire was discovered both nines worked together to put it out. There was no contested point during the whole game, an unusual occurrence for Yale-Princeton contests. The score...
...Bergen Point nine is in want of a pitcher...
...from the College League leaves the fourth place vacant, and if the present state of things continues, Yale will be a member of the triangular league, which was found so objectionable in anticipation last winter. There is every reason to believe that the sentiment of the University on this point is unchanged, and it is to be hoped that the base-ball management will use all its influence to fill the vacancy at once. The adoption of such a course would be of material aid to the finances of the club, besides being in harmony with the sentiment...
...that they support the team by betting on them, learnt the falsity of their position. If some of the men who supported the athletic team by this method had given a little of their spare, cash to the association, the results would have paid even from their selfish financial point of view...
...Haven despatch says that Yale's pitcher, Stagg, denies that he is to play with the Bergin Point nine, and states further that he has positively declined the most advantageous offer he has yet received - that from the Chicago club. It seems the reason he declines the offers to play-ball professionally is from "conscientious scruples." He proposes to enter the theological seminary after he graduates from the Yale academical department...