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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...exercise of authority given me by the two governing boards I now create...
Endowed with a brilliant mind, Fall secured admission to both Harvard and Oxford at the age of 15. In January, 1903, he entered New College, Oxford, from which he was graduated in two years and a half, the youngest man to complete the Oxford course for a quarter of a century. At New College he played on the football team and rowed on one of the college crews. In the fall of 1906 he entered Harvard, finishing the work for his degree in one year, and gaining an honorary scholarship. In the autumn of his Sophomore year he went...
...University baseball team of 1909 closed its season by losing the last two games to Yale. After winning, 3 to 2, in the game at Cambridge, the team was shut out at New Haven on Tuesday, June 29, by the score of 4 to 0. The deciding game, played at New Yark on Saturday, July 3, resulted in a victory for Yale, 5 to 2, in ten innings. After playing winning ball for nine innings, the Harvard team went up in the air in the first of the tenth and allowed Yale to score three runs without...
...victory for Yale. Hicks pitched the entire game for Harvard. For the first four innings he was working well; in fact, in the fourth he struck cut three of Yale's best batters in succession. The fifth, however, proved his undoing. A single, an error, another single, and a two-base hit followed in rarid succession, giving Yale three runs. Yale added one more to the score in the seventh by means of a base on balls, a stolen base an error, and a scratch hit. The University team made seven hits off Van Vleck and Merritt, but they were...
...eighth, with one down, Hicks drew a pass and went to second on Lanigan's second single. Harvey then hit to the shortstop, who tagged second, retiring Lanigan on a force-out. Hicks made third on the play, however, and as Harvey stole second, a hit meant two runs. Once more nothing happened, as Currier was out on an easy grounder to second...