Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...came in on Sullivan's two begger. Sullivan got to third on McKie's sacrifice, but was left there. Harvard made a run in the third on a base on balls and Hovey's two begger, and another in the fifth on a very wild throw by short stop to first base. But the great scoring for the home team was made in the ninth. Then Hallowell, Hovey, Alward and Cobb each got base hits. The Clydes seemed to lose their control over the ball, and four errors in rapid succession, aided by these hits, brought the score...
...wild throw by the Vermont first baseman. Hovey and Trafford made hits, and Frothingham was hit by a pitched ball. This filled the bases. Alward came to the bat and knocked out a hit which brought in Hovey and Trafford, and advanced Frothingham to third. Cook hit to short stop and Frothingham started for home like a shot; the ball followed him, but he made a magnificent slide and saved...
...Harvard '89, was third base, with S. B. Morison, the Yale half-back, on first, McClung, captain of the Yale eleven for next year, as catcher, and Cook, the big Princeton foot ball rusher in centre field. Noyes, who was captain of the Yale nine in '89, was short stop on the Andover team that year...
...next year, 1886, Exeter won again, 7 to 6, after a most exciting game. McClung was catcher again; as he was in all four years of his course at Exeter. Wurtenburg, later a Yale half-back, was short-stop, and Dana, now captain of the Princeton nine, was centre field...
...Andover went to Exeter and gave her crushing defeat, 22 to 6. Exeter's pitcher gave 17 bases on balls. In 1888 Andover won after a close game, 6 to 4. Upton '93, played short stop on Andover that year. In 1889, Trafford '93, and Upton '93, caught respectively for Exeter and Andover, and Soule '93, played short stop for Exeter. Exeter won, 3 to 2. It was in this game that Trafford got through several water buckets, a couple of benches and the scorers' stand in time to make a wonderful foul catch...