Word: princeton
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...must be remembered however, that without strength at the batin a moderate degree, the strongest fielding nine cannot expect to win. Another point is, that if Harvard won against U. of P., Yale defeated Princeton, and that on Princeton's grounds. Therefore the nine must not take their victory as anything more than an encouragement to work harder, remembering that the first Yale game is but ten days off, that Yale has a chance to win the series from Princeton, and that a double victory over Yale will yet give Harvard the championship...
Yale defeated Princeton at Princeton on Saturday by the score of 6 to 4, and thereby tied the series. The deciding game will be played in New York next Saturday. Princeton made seven errors to Yale's three, and in all but Kelly's case proved unable to make hits when they were needed. Sullivan of Yale made several star plays...
...graduating class at Exeter, thirty-six members intend to go to Harvard, four to Yale, two to the University of Pennsylvania, two to Williams, two to Dartmouth, one each to the University of New York, Brown, Columbia, Trinity, Princeton and West Point, and ten are undecided...
This should augur well for the game today, and the result is awaited with special interest. A victory over Brown will mean that the nine is indeed looking up, for the Brown nine won one game in their series with Princeton and scored a decisive victory over Yale. Thus a good showing this afternoon will mean that there is as yet no cause for discouragement over the final outcome of the season...
...entire university was disappointed in the result of Saturday's game in spite of the plucky exhibition in the eighth inning. There is, however, a general confidence that the other big games will have a very different result from that of the first Princeton game. The team went to pieces on Saturday in a manner which is unaccountable, unless it is to be ascribed to Fearey's failure in the box. Who will pitch in the coming game is not yet determined, but it seems probable that both Captain Greenway and Hall will be put in, and possibly Stickney...