Word: rains
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Rain prevented the baseball game between the University second and the Yale second teams from being played on Saturday. As the Yale team was unable to remain in Boston until today, the game has been cancelled...
...Freshman track team defeated Yale 1912 in the third dual meet held in the Stadium Saturday afternoon by the score of 61 2-3 to 55 1-3 points. Although there was a driving rain, one record was broken and several good times were made. The Yale team, which was particularly strong in the field events, was handicapped by the very unfavorable weather, while the Harvard runners, trained to perfection by Coaches Donovan and Quinn, showed up even better than in practice and won every point for which they had a chance with the exception of the 220-yard hurdles...
...superior training of the Freshmen was shown in the distance runs, in which they won all three places. In the two-mile run Kaynor of Yale, after putting up a determined fight for a place; was unable to hold the pace against the beating wind and rain, and fell on the sixth lap, leaving four Harvard men to finish the race. The 880-yard run was easily won by Fernald, with Yale men second and third. The time of 2 minutes, 3 4-5 seconds, was good against the wind...
...second championship baseball game between Harvard and Princeton, which was postponed from Saturday on account of rain, will be played at Princeton this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. When it was seen that a game would be impossible on Saturday, the University team returned to Philadelphia, where the men stayed at the St. James Hotel. The team will return on the Federal Express tonight, arriving in Boston at 7.11 o'clock tomorrow morning...
Ithaca, N. Y., May 10, 1909.--The University lacrosse team was defeated this afternoon by Cornell by the score of 8 to 2. The game was played in the rain on a muddy field which greatly handicapped the players. Walbridge of Cornell scored the first goal after six minutes of play. In the first half the play was largely in Harvard's territory and the half ended with the score 4 to 0. It was only because of the University team's good defence that the score was not larger...