Word: tyng
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nine was composed for the most part of new men, or of those who had appeared for the first time the previous year. Hooper pitched, but his delivery had ceased to be effective; Thatcher caught; Kent, the captain, played first base; F. W. Thayer, '78, second; Leeds, short stop; Tyng, third; with Tower, Ernst, and Latham in the field. Sixteen games were played, of which only seven were won. Yale won the series in two consecutive games of 9 to 4, and 11 to 4, respectively. Three games with the Bostons proved more disastrous than usual. The Princeton...
...Nine proved more successful in some respects. Yale was defeated in two successive games, and the Bostons were also beaten 21 to 19. Hooper, '75, pitched this year, and Tyng played for the first time...
...never seen the chief places in the Old World they may prove interesting. The eight begin their travels with a trip to the Harvard-Yale boat-race, where one of their young lady friends attributes the victory of the crimson to the fact that "those old veterans, Ernst and Tyng, have grown bald and gray rowing on the ball-crew." The party go in the steerage to Rotterdam, visit the Rhine, the Black Forest, Switzerland, and Venice, and catch a hurried glimpse of Paris on their return. The book is written in a literary style that disarms criticism...