Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Other college games played Saturday resulted as follows...
...Harvard cricket eleven opened the season last Saturday, defeating Brockton by the score of 97 to 46. Though the score seems a little onesided, this is accounted for by Brockton's poor bowling more than by Harvard's strong batting. Of the whole team, but three men got double figures: Carleton, 27; Dove, 27; and Hastings, 23. Though the fielding was at first ragged, the work of the eleven as a whole was far from disappointing for the opening game. The eleven is weakened at the bat by the loss of Adams and Scattergood, but if anything it is stronger...
...Football Rules Committee met at the University Athletic Club in New York on Saturday. This will probably be the last meeting for this year. The committee was originally called together for the colleges by the University Athletic Club to discuss proposed changes in football playing rules. No really radical alterations have been made but the rules have been revised and made more definite. A copy of them, as at present prepared, will be taken to each college by its member of the committee, and the final vote will be taken without any further meetings of the committee...
...Freshmen defeated Brown 1901 Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field, in a close nine-inning game. by the score of 9 to 8. At the outset, 1901 took the lead, and maintained it up to the seventh inning. McDonald was then found for four singles, which helped Brown net four runs. In the next inning, however, the Freshmen tied the score, through Kendall's base running, and in the ninth, Fincke reached first on a neat single, stole second, and finally scored on Jaynes...
...Curtis '99, captain of the Harvard golf team won the intercollegiate individual championship on the Ardsley links Saturday, defeating John Reid, Jr., of Yale in the finals, by 5 holes and 4 to play. His victory was due to his remarkable accuracy in judging his approaching and putting shots, as the Yale man usually drove much further...