Word: scrubbings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CRIMSON foot-ball eleven is open to challenges from scrub-elevens. All challenges are to be sent to W. D. Bancroft, Capt. and manager...
...glad to see that our words of encouragement have had some effect at least in reviving the noble game of "scrub" foot-ball. The games are of almost daily occurrence at present, and furnish an ample fund of amusement for crowds of spectators as well as for the men engaged in the sport. The unwillingness of the expert players to come out and referee the games seems now to be the chief blemish on the complete happiness of the amateurs. This should not continue. Any man thus asked should consider it his duty to go out and aid his twenty...
...game yesterday between '88 and '89, and the game with the Latin School Saturday showed clearly two things: Either the freshmen must play better ball or get a tremendous drubbing by Yale. Such playing as was done on Holmes yesterday by '89 would be a disgrace to a respectable "scrub" team, and '89 does not begin to play as well as several of the nines which contested for the CRIMSON cups last year. Most of the fielders treat a game of base ball as a huge joke, and during a game indulge in such little pleasantries as guying each other...
...formation of scrub ball nines has already begun...
...hope that the general interest that was shown in base-ball last year will not be wanting this. The series of games played last spring between scrub nines was extremely interesting and not without real value. A similar series should be arranged for the present season. At this time of the year the bat and the ball should have no rest, and the time that is not occupied by the 'varsity games, and class contests, which we suppose will be soon announced, should be fully occupied by the "non-professionals," to whom we would say with Horace, "Carpe diem...