Word: shameful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that they have not been taught how to play the game as it is played today. In both individual and team play they acted like men who had been left to work out their own salvation. All who saw the game must have felt that it was a burning shame that men who showed so plainly that they could have accomplished so much should have been left to struggle in a hopeless individual contest against eleven men playing as one, and all through lack of proper coaching. It is this feeling, the protest against the needless sacrifice of excellent material...
...matter of small consequence just how Yale played her part in the matter. If she wanted to show still more plainly her distaste of meeting Harvard, she took an excellent method of doing it, and a method for which, we doubt not, she has not the slightest feeling of shame. We have nothing further to say about Yale in the matter...
...varsity nine will play this afternoon the Woonsockets, who recently beat Lovell's team by a score 17 to 0. The game should be a good one, and it is to be hoped that there will be a larger attendance than on Monday. It is a great shame that only forty or fifty men saw the excellent game which the 'varsity put up Monday. Cook will play at third base today, and Dickinson in left field. Alward is laid up for the time being, but is not hurt seriously. Bates and Cobb will be the battery...
...shame that the class nines have not had better grounds to play on. At a comparatively small outlay of time and money the field could be vastly improved, and it is to be hoped that even at this late date some steps will be taken to put the grounds in proper shape...
...have erred let me say, before I submit any "views," that there is no excuse for our defeats. Explanation there may be, but it is not to our credit. My object in quoting the record, "H. 18, Y. 12. was not to "exult," but to shame the men into a realization that we are not wont to take second place, and ought not to be forced to take it through crass stupidity...