Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Duggan, Brown's star left-hander gave the Crimson three hits, one more than he had granted Yale three days before, and he fanned 11 men. Every Harvard player except Jenkins and Todd struck out at least once. The University players are decidedly in a bad batting slump. Townsend held them to five hits a week ago at Princeton, Neubauer gave four Friday, and Duggan's three Saturday make the Crimson average four hits a game--and four hits seldom win a ball game. They have not won any of the last three...
Campbell alone seems inaffected by the general slump. He has made five of Harvard's twelve hits in the last three games. Every other batting mark has fallen and the team's average has dropped 14 points...
...sports credits Harvard with 13 victories over Yale, and Yale with 13 victories over Harvard. With Princeton also the number of major sport games won and lost is tied. "We have to face the fact," he went on to say. "Harvard has been for some time in an athletic slump. We do not want to be satisfied with an average record, we want the majority of victories on our side. The question is, how to recover from this slump...
...race brought general depression among Coach Stevens's men. It is generally agreed by all men acquainted with the conditioning of the first two eights that both crews were in better condition a week before the races with Pennsylvania. The oarsmen were at a loss to account for their slump. The opinion was expressed at the Varsity Club's training table last night that this might be due to over-training, but no one seemed to doubt that Coach Stevens had the best eight oars in college...
...both cases. Moreover the Princeton team is inexperienced, being composed of material from last year's second and Freshman teams. Their strength is not to be underrated, however, for they have at times, particularly during the first part of the season, shown; great potentialities. If they recoved from the slump of the past two matches, they should improve last year's record, a 6 to 3 defeat...