Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nines were promptly on the field, each presenting its full strength, and all showing by their preliminary practice the results of careful work, and vigorous determination to win or die hard. But great are the uncertainties of base-ball! Yale entered the contest confident of victory; a confidence theoretically well founded, but practically disastrous to reputation and pocket. Harvard, on the other hand, had learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work. This feeling, with the added inspiration of surroundings, time, and place, gave our fellows...
When all played so well, with so much vim and steadiness, it is perhaps unnecessary to speak of individual accomplishment. But yet too much praise cannot be given to the excellent playing of our pitcher and catcher, the backbone of the Nine. Tyng's batting was something immense; his old reliable black-walnut bat knocking Carter's "effectiveness" into thin air. Ernst pitched in a way that none of those Yale fellows could find out, and he, too, did good work at the bat. The bases were splendidly played, their guardians never failing to do their duty, however difficult. Latham...
...beauty to the left, on which Thayer scored. Ernst hit safe to right, and Tyng scored. Two runs to begin with, which were loudly cheered. To Yale the first three innings yielded no returns, no man reaching first base. Wheaton's hit in the first inning was well taken by Latham. In the third Tyng made a glorious three-base drive down between centre and right, which won for him uproarious applause. He soon scored on Tower's sacrifice hit to second...
...prove as effective as before, but he is always a hard man to hit. The rest played rather poorly, as the score will show. Their occasional brilliant plays were fully recognized, and applauded by the audience in an impartial and courteous spirit, which New Haven audiences would do well to imitate. The umpiring was excellent, and thoroughly satisfactory...
...Yale Record advises its subscribers to calm their minds and consider that there is another baseball game to be played with Harvard. Perhaps, while they are about it, our friends at Yale might as well calm their minds and consider the possibility of there being two other games to be played. They might also calm their minds and consider that there is a boat-race to be rowed...