Word: snap
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Wretched batting and fielding characterized the freshman game yesterday afternoon. The boys played without any life or snap, and they must settle down and play sharper ball if they wish to win the next game with Yale. Harvard made most of her runs in the third inning. Beale made a safe hit, Warren and Stevenson got to base on balls and with the bases full Scott hit a home run to left field bringing in four runs. The other run was made by Dean in the last inning...
...varsity crew. Saturday Kales, stroke of the '96 crew, was put in at stroke, while Fennessy was moved back to No. 6. Captain Davis went from No. 6 to No. 4 and Townsend to No. 2. The placing of Kales at stroke has put some much needed life and snap into the stroke. Waters, who rowed at No. 7 until recently, has gone out of training...
...practice yesterday was sharp and with a fair amount of snap. In the game with Brown tomorrow the nine will probably have the above make...
...freshmen partially retrieved Wednesday's defeat yesterday afternoon by beating the Boston Latin School nine, 11 to 4. Most of the men played in a listless way and showed no snap whatever. In base running the freshmen were especially poor. They seemed to be afraid to slide to bases and lost several runs by their slowness...
...response to Captain Griffin's call for candidates for the ninety-six nine, twenty-four men presented themselves yesterday. The material seems to be excellent, and the men are working with a great deal of snap, so that the prospects for a good team are very good...