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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...three order. George Wright and O'Rourke led off for the other side with base hits, but the Bostons failed to score, George Wright being caught napping at third, and prettily thrown out by Thatcher, who purposely muffed the ball at the third strike. In the second inning, Harvard again failed to score, but had two men left on bases. Schafer scored for the Bostons, the next three men retiring at first. Score, 1 to 0 in favor of the Bostons. Neither Nine scored in the third inning. In the next two innings Harvard made four runs by good batting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASE-BALL. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...course a Yale man wrote it. And yet the sentences are all grammatical; the second verse, too, has a classical touch, - a reference to one of Horace's odes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...Tuesday last the Amherst Nine came to Cambridge to play the second game of the series with our Nine. As the Amherst men had defeated Brown in an up-hill game, making no less than five runs in the last innings, a close and exciting game was hoped for, if not expected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD vs. AMHERST. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...hundred and sixty-eight men, in addition to the University eight, show their willingness to sacrifice their ease enough to row for their colleges. The races just ended lasted a week, and Brazenose came out at the "head of the river," having bumped University on the first or second night. Of the twenty-one boats only six held their positions without change from first to last. Something of the extent to which rowing is indulged in at Oxford can be realized by reading the account in the Undergraduates' Journal of the "Procession of Boats" which passed and saluted the head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

YALE and Princeton played the second game in their series last Tuesday, and the Record says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

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