Word: team
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...team left Boston on Thursday at 6 P. M., in a special car, and arrived at Montreal on Friday, after a very comfortable journey. The next morning was spent for the most part in making purchases; and after separating into parties, the different members of the team drove around to see the "sights," and were much entertained by the quaint costumes and buildings of this fine old city. In the afternoon they went to McGill College, where they practised for a short time in a scrub game with each other; all the men seemed to be in fine condition...
...members of the Class Nine of '77. The Tauntons are one of the best amateur clubs in the State, so that too much cannot be said in praise of our men for defeating, in their newly organized state and without the services of their regular pitcher, so strong a team. The game was very exciting, and well played, comparatively few errors being made, while the batting was above the average. The Tauntons took the lead in the first inning and kept it until the fourth, when the score was even; from this time until the last...
...from the loss of one of their bowlers, and were, as a whole, quite out of practice, even in fielding. They are to be congratulated for doing as well as they did. There is promising material in College for a good eleven, and Mr. Lee hopes to have a team in the Spring whose record shall not fall behind that...
...only does he raise and support armies; he creates navies. He buys a line of steamers, comprising the finest boats in the country; but their chief value to him, after all, is in adding to the many titles he already enjoys the new one of Admiral. He drives a team which he is sure cannot be excelled in Gotham, and confidently believes not much inferior to that of Phoebus himself. In these and many other pursuits, besides his own regular and legitimate calling, undertaken less for pleasure than for notoriety, he has succeeded in producing upon the staid plodding...