Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Jarvis Field was the scene of many an exciting game of football, last fall, between scrub elevens, representing various club tables, or some of our many societies. Just enough rivalry attended the games to make the play exciting, and, at times, really up to the standard of good work. But these games resulted in more benefit to the football interest at Harvard than one could be led to suppose. They did more than to merely amuse the men who made up the contesting elevens, and the score or so of their friends who strolled out to the field to witness...
...from past members of the freshmen elevens, No man who possesses the physique requisite for football playing should hesitate at all to work for a position on the team, and no better way can be found for gaining a general idea of the game than by playing with some scrub eleven...
...success with which the college has met in the championship ball games this spring has resulted in a considerable increase in the interest taken by the students in this sport. Ferhaps the strongest proof of this increased interest is that furnished by the many "scrub" and "table" nines which have been formed among the, so to speak, non-professional players of the college. This result ought to be encouraged, for in many ways it is a most desirable one. In the first place, it proves a most excellent method to get the men out of doors for exercise, a result...
...increase of "table," and "scrub" nines, shows how great is the interest felt in baseball, this year...
...Scrub nines are now becoming popular...