Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...more important teams which have been defeated. Of the set-backs, Catholic University has since been beaten by nines inferior to the Crimson, Brown merely broke even, and Boston College has been shown in a second game not to be of the calibre to be rated above Harvard; while Virginia's tie was later in the season more than offset in a shut-out defeat at the hands of Whitney. The season to date gives the University team a record of 833, a very high mark...
...brought forth the first set-back, began on Saturday, April 15, when Mahan defeated the Army's star pitcher, Neyland, by a score of 2 to 1. Charlottesville, Va., was the next stop on the itinerary, and here the University fought out a long 2 to 2 tie with Virginia. The Navy went down to a 4 to 3 defeat with Whitney twirling, but the game was won for Harvard at the expense of losing Wyche, who tore a ligament in his ankle and has been unavailable since. Mahan met a tartar at Washington, for Catholic University found...
...with Mahan in the box the University had an easy time of it, winning, 6 to 0, after getting a three-run start in the first inning. The tie game on the spring trip was wiped out in the following contest, for Whitney pitched shut-out ball against Virginia, while the men behind him brought in five runs with the aid of as many hits and Rixey's loss of control...
After the Virginia game, the team swung into the heavy end of its schedule. Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia on May 6, was the first big game, and Mahan faced the Quakers and registered a 4 to 0 shut-out. Brown, at Cambridge on the following Wednesday, met a like fate at the hands of Garritt, losing 6 to 0. Healy was hit freely, and the University scored steadily throughout the eight innings of its attack. Mahan came back in the box against Amherst, and won, 4 to 1. He struck out nine of the visitors, and allowed but five hits. Amherst...
Harvard 2, Virginia...