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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rowed in '87 freshman crew; has improved greatly during the year; still rows short, and meets at the finish; faces his blade over more than the others. 7: captain; rowed in '83 and '84 university crews; most experienced oar in the boat; rows smoothly; his finish is sometimes weak. Stroke: rowed in the '84 class crew; is a good stroke; is slow sometimes in sliding forward on the recover; pulls out at the finish, and has tendency to meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Crew. | 6/16/1885 | See Source »

...that if the championship series is awarded to Yale with only one game to its credit, a dangerous precedent is established at once. Now Yale freshmen always have an independent way of acting with our freshmen that is truly original: if they fear a defeat on account of a weak team, they "crawl" as their freshman eleven did last fall, or their '87 nine did a year ago; if they have an unusually strong team, they win one game and then in a calm way refuse to play any more games because they have the series "cold," as they claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/11/1885 | See Source »

...found no difficulty in winning the game at Hanover yesterday. Yet, in spite of the strong probabilities of success, all over confidence must be suppressed, for, of all games, base-ball is one the most uncertain, as has been shown only too often by the unexpected victories of a weak team over one reputed to be of much greater strength. No better example of this could be asked than the result of the Brown game at Providence last year, when we lost not only the game but the championship. The narrow escape from defeat which Yale had at Amherst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/30/1885 | See Source »

...freshman nine suecceded in defeating the Boston High School nine, yesterday afternoon, by a score of 9 to to 6. The freshmen played a miserable game, making very many costly and inexcusable errors. The batting was very weak, except in the last two innings, when good batting, assisted by errors gave the freshmen the game. The High School nine played, on the whole, a good game, and led by several runs until the seventh inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/21/1885 | See Source »

CAMBRIDGE 1: HARVARD 20.The game of base-ball yesterday afternoon on Holmes Field, between a nine from Cambridge, and the Harvard nine, resulted in rather an ignominious defeat for the Cambridge nine. The game was marked by the heavy hitting of the Harvard nine, and the weak hitting and loose fielding of the Cambridge nine. Only two hits were made off of Winslow, both being scratch hits, while the score shows the heavy batting of Harvard. The only run made by the Cambridges, was made in the seventh inning, a muff by Willard, a passed ball, a force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Base Ball. | 5/6/1885 | See Source »

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