Word: slack
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Yale baseball team was defeated 15 to 4 by Holy Cross at New Haven on Saturday. Yale lost by nine costly errors, weakness in the box, and slack team work. Holy Cross fielded consistently well and at times brilliantly. They made six runs in the first inning, and 17 hits in the course of the game...
Owing to the number of substitutes put in the game, the playing was slack. For a long time the ball see sawed back and forth in the middle of the field, one side gaining it on a fumble, making a few yards, and then losing it on a fumble. The backs were not sure in the handling of punts, nor did the line hold sufficiently well for the fullbacks to get the punts off. The men got down slowly on the kick off, and did not tackle surely...