Word: springfield
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...allow our backs to play the day before such an important game, It would have been equally impossible for Yale '87 to have played on that day as several of the men played on the university in the game mentioned by the News. We were willing to play at Springfield or Providence, but not at Hartford, to reach which from Cambridge takes four times as long as from New Haven. It is obvious that the gate receipts at the base ball grounds in Providence would have been much larger than at Hartford. Yale had the choice of Cambridge, Springfield...
...York, but the Harvard team would not assent to this, but named Spring field or Cambridge as the only two places where they would consent to play. This was a delicate way of obliging our team to play at Cambridge for the simple reason that the receipts at Springfield would have been by no means sufficient to pay expenses ; while at Cambridge they were reasonably large. It is worthy of notice also, that no offer was made to pay half the expenses of our team to Cambridge, although in view of the fact that the Harvard team had no travelling...
...Crocker, '85, went to Springfield on Saturday to attend a meeting of base-ball representatives from the different colleges...
...Inter-collegiate Base-ball Association met at the Massasoit House, Springfield, Friday, March 14, the colleges being represented as follows: Amherst, G. W. Wadsworth, W. F. Wilcox, E. P. Harris; Brown, N. S. Dike, G. M. Wadsworth, A. T. Wall; Harvard, L. V. LeMoyne, Adams Crocker; Princeton, C. S. Clark, A. Moffat; Yale, H. C. Hopkins, W. C. Camp, N. G. Williams, Jr. The convention was called to order by vice-president Crocker, and the following officers were elected: President, Adams Crocker, of Harvard; first vice-president, N. G. Williams, of Yale; second vice-president, N. S. Dike, of Brown...
...captains of the several college teams in the inter-collegiate association are as follows: Harvard, L. V. Le Moyne; Amherst, E. P. Harris; Brown, E. B. Durfee; Dartmouth, J. F. Springfield; Princeton, C. S. Clark; Yale, H. C. Hopkins...