Word: slump
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hope for great things from this year's nine, for it is not often that a Harvard team defeats the two best teams of the South. With such an excellent pitching staff, a veteran outfield, and an infield which gives promise of great brilliancy, the proverbial mid-season slump should be notable by its absence, and the practice games should be fought out with as much sprit and success as the championship series...
...view of the fact that only two men are lost from last year's team, the general outlook for a successful season seems bright, provided the team does not get into a rut and allow last year's mid-season slump to occur again...
...games and play real baseball. No one has doubted the amount of baseball ability that is latent in this year's squad, but it has never appeared in any of the many different combinations thus far attempted. If this period of mediocrity can be called the proverbial mid-season slump, at lease one record has been broken-the length of time it has lasted...
...whole, and the men have acquired better control of their slides. On the other hand, the boat has travelled poorly at times, and there seems to be some difficulty about steadying down after a racing start. There is still a tendency to clip the stroke and to slump at the finish...
Coach Pieper spoke of the slump which the team had been through during the last two weeks. But it ended Wednesday, he said, and the undergraduate knows what a good team we really have...