Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...defensive work is beginning to tell. In very few cases were Technology's backs able to buck the center successfully, and running round the end was out of the question. The interference was a little weaker than it has been in some days. The blockers did not strike their men hard enough to throw them clear off their feet...
Harvard pulled out the series with University of Pennsylvania in yesterday's deciding game. Jack Highlands was again in the box for Harvard, and while he was hit hard throughout the game, was much more steady than his opponents, giving less bases on balls and making more strike outs...
...made ten with a total of fourteen. Hovey, Cook and Mason did exceptionally fine work at the bat. The fault which the men had of knocking balls into the air is growing less marked, but it is not altogether cured. Of the twenty-four putouts, five were on strike-outs, three on foul balls, two on pop-flies to the infield, for on high hits to outfield and ten on ground balls. Of the hits, ten also were on the ground. That is to say of the thirty one times that the ball was fairly...
...knocked out of the box in three innings, and his successor fared no better than he had. The 'varsity made twenty-one safe hits and there were two particularly satisfactory features of this hitting. Only eleven balls were put up in the air, and, with the exception of four strike outs and a foul tip, every other hit was on the ground. Again the men did not try to knock long hits; all but one of the hits were singles and this promises well for team playing in batting...
...most encouraging thing to be said of the nine as it played yesterday is that strike-outs and errors were few. Corbett also caught much better than on Saturday. The nine certainly have good prospects for the games of the recess...