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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...making rapid improvement, under the leadership of J. M. Little, Jr., '97. Notwithstanding the fact that the majority of the men are novices, the club already plays with a precision and snap which is unusual at this time of year. Of the three parts, the banjeaurines are the poorest; they lack the expression and softness of touch required. This will no doubt be remedied before the first concert, which takes place at the University Club in Boston on April...
...work began to be settled, prospects were encouraging, with all the old players back, and several new men of promise, among them Mills, DeWitt, Jerrems, Louis Hinkey, Brown, and Chadwick. But within a few weeks the team played wretchedly slow and listless football. The veterans were the poorest. At the same time came the accidents that always occur during the middle of the season. Butterworth, Beard, Adee, and several of the new candidates developed physical troubles, rather more being in the nature of sickness, than sprains or bruises. This state of affairs grew worse until at least half...
What promised to be a very exciting contest yesterday turned out to be one of the poorest exhibitions of football seen on Soldiers Field this season. Several of the regular 'varsity men had been over-trained and were obliged to rest, so that the team was made up largely of substitutes. In view of this fact, the management had tried to cancel the game, but the Brown men were unwilling to give...
...been an alarming decrease. Of all the classes now in college, ninety-seven has made the feeblest initial effort to produce a nine. Of course the matter rests entirely with the class. There is no compulsion in the matter. If they are willing to have their record the poorest in many years, if they wish to incur the reputation of being spiritless, they have full power. And yet the rest of the University cannot look on with indifference while they take such a course. Harvard's prospects in baseball have not been so gloomy for years as they...
...team has played one or two very pretty games and some where there seemed to be absolutely no science whatsoever. At the time of the West Point game the eleven was probably in its poorest condition, but since then the men have made considerable improvement...