Word: team
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...average of the Harvard team was 70 per cent, while that of the Lexington team was remarkably high, being over 84 per cent...
...Harvard Shooting Club shot against the Lexington Gun club at Lexington Saturday afternoon. Although Harvard's team was defeated, the defeat was not one which should discourage either the team or college as the scores mades by Lexington were remarkably good, and the conditions under which the match was shot were in favor of the home team, being new to the Harvard men. Each team was made up of five men each man shooting at twenty-five birds with the following results...
...Harvard Bicycle Club defeated the Tech. 'Cycling Club last Saturday in a very exciting road race. By the conditions of the contest each club could enter as many men as it pleased, but only the first five of each team were o count. Of these ten men, the first was to count ten points, the second nine points, and so on. The course was from the Beacon street extension out around the Chestnut Hill reservoir, then back to the starting point, then again around the reservoir, finishing near the starting point. Bailey, of Harvard, rode three machines in the course...
...practice which the nine was to gain from play with professionals this year seems to have resulted in little good so far. The work of the team in the first inning of yesterday's game was simply abominable; no excuse can be given for most of the errors which were made. Almost every man on the team seemed half asleep, and before they became awake again the game was lost. Even as it was there might have been some hopes of retrieving the poor work of the first inning, if the batting had not been atrocious. When a record...
After the first inning, however, the team played well together. The infield showed much improvement over the work in the last game, and the men backed each other up well. As long however, as the nine continues to go to pieces at the beginning of every game there is little chance for a creditable showing to be made...