Word: scrubbed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...might expect, the picked eight from so large a school is a strong crew. Each building or dormitory has a crew, and there occurs every year a race between these representative crews which corresponds somewhat to the Harvard class races. There are also at Eton many "scrub" crews, and boating is perhaps the most popular of all the sports. The boating men have a trainer appointed and paid like any other master of the school, and, in fact, the school government encourages the students in all their sports. The races between Eton and the other great preparatory schools are oecasions...
...Scrub games of ball are gaining great popularity at Yale. Matches between the different dormitories and club tables are frequent...
...custom of playing scrub games of base-ball is certainly an excellent one, giving many men an opportunity for exercise and varying the routine game of tennis, now the form of exercise generally taken by men not trying for any team or not particularly athletic in nature. But it seems rather hasty for men to engage in these games of ball on the newly filled and planted ground. There are several small pieces of this new ground outside for the track on Jarvis, and it seems a pity that the turf thereon should not be allowed to harden until...
Ball nines are being talked of by several of the tables at Memorial. Club tables outside of the hall will also put forward scrub nines as the evenings grow longer...
...this, we think, is the lack of room for any other nines to play. If there were more grounds it would be quite possible to organize class nines; besides, in this case there are a large number of men who would be glad to indulge in occasional or "scrub" games. What remedy President Eliot has to offer other than enlarging the college playgrounds we do not know...