Word: season
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Dartmouth scheduled for last Saturday was cancelled on account of rain. The Dartmouth team was unable to stay over as it plays Pennsylvania at Hanover this afternoon. The next game for the University team will be on Thursday when it will meet Holy Cross for the second time this season...
...Freshmen have had an unusually successful season this year, having won six out of the eight regular games played, tied one, and lost one. They have scored 61 runs to 19 for their opponents and as a rule have been exceptionally fast in their fielding. In batting they have outhit the opposing teams two to one, securing hits when hits were needed...
...fielding being especially fast. At Hotchkiss the Freshmen were held to an eleven inning tie, 3 to 3, but Pomfret was easily defeated 20 to 3. At Andover the Freshman team suffered their only defeat in a sensational game in which the Freshmen played the best, ball of the season. At New Haven, in the first game of the series, they defeated Yale 6 to 4 in a hard-fought game, and a week ago last Saturday, closed the season successfully by shutting out the Cornell freshmen...
...Yale team is in an unsettled condition as a shift has been made in the positions this week as a result of the unsatisfactory work in the recent games. This is the second time this season that a considerable change has been made in the make-up of the team. The Yale batting order will be: Philbin, c.; Fels, s.s.; Murphy, c.f.; Logan, 3b.; Van Vleck, r.f.; Badger, 2b.; Jefferson, 1b.; Mallory, l.f.; Merritt, p. The Princeton order will be the same as against the University team. The second game of the series will be played at Princeton next Saturday...
...captains in the past, and of course it would be a platitude to ascribe our present winning streak in all sports to exceptional captains--combined with improved coaching. Rand won his place in the front rank by the measure in which he contributed to the building up of this season's team. Without detracting from the coaches' credit, it is only fair to say, in the words of one of them, that Rand was the "sun-shine" of the team. Confronted by material appreciably inferior to that of the preceding year, with several of the best performers on probation...