Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fred Mitchell, Harvard baseball coach: "I've always said that the bigger they come the harder they fall, and this spitball pitcher that these Princetonian editors have may get by all right for eight innings but he's sure to blow up in the end. Tell the second baseman to play around, like Ullman doesn't, and the pitcher to keep out of the hole, like ours don't, play for the run, and you'll win. Anybody batting over a thousand gets a tryout with the Braves...
...Pinkerton '27, Harvard polo captain: "From all I've heard both teams are going to need transportation getting around the bases. We would be glad to place a few of our old nags at your disposal if you promise to keep them away from the trough at third base...
...Lampoon, for 25 years unsuccessful coach of the Lampoon baseball team: "Of course I can't say for sure because I haven't seen the Princeton boys play. But from the way the Lampoon has beaten the CRIMSON ever since I've been around here it looks as though the Princetonian ought to win. (Ed. note: The worthy Mt. Auburn Street mentor has obviously become somewhat confused here in his statistics...
...began, "that our chances don't look very good. I might elaborate on the impressive showing the Princetonian has made in its secret sessions this spring. I might try to prophesy how this game's coming out--in fact I might do a lot of things. But I've got just one thing I want to say to you. And it isn't that our pitchers have got any new shoots which can fool the other guy, or that a last minute shift in the batting order is going to make us into a different team, but it's just...
...want to hear you YELL when they go out of here tonight--as they soon must go to get in bed early so that they'll be in shape to give all they've got tomorrow for you. I want to hear you YELL tomorrow when they come on that field; I want to hear you YELL when that first Princetonian batter goes out in the first; and I want to hear you YELL from then on until the last Harvard man passes out in the ninth...