Word: wet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...field, but will later move back to Holmes Field, where a "scalped" diamond will be prepared as soon as the ground has become sufficiently dried for removing the turf. This "skinned" diamond will be a great improvement over the old turf one which was so uneven, and remained wet and soggy for such a long time after a rain that not only games but regular practice were interfered with...
This winter there have been a few cases of grippe and great many cases of tonsilitis with marked grippe symptoms, but they were of short duration. They are generally the result of exposure in cold or wet weather. There have been four or five cases of typhoid fever, which were apparently unconnected with outside cases, but only one was very serious. In the list of non-contagious sicknesses there appear several cases of appendicitis and two of nervous break-down. The latter is due to the tendency of students to cut down their sleeping time from nine...
...prize winning. Cross country running, to be sure, must, if the name is to signify anything, be through fields and up and down hills for at least a part of the way. It is not at all necessary, however, that courses be chosen which lead through clay pits and wet marshes, as has often been the case. If the hares are careful in laying their trail this afternoon we feel sure that the attendance on future runs will be far larger...
...HAVEN, CONN., NOV. 14. - The last football game Yale will play here took place this afternoon at the Yale Field. The ground was wet and soggy, but Yale rolled up a score of 48 points to nothing against the Chicago Athletic team, their opponents, scoring 36 points the first, and 12 the second half. Butterworth was the star performer of the afternoon. He made two touchdowns, after runs of 30 yards each, and kicked two goals from the field, one of which, from the 45 yard line, was the hardest ever kicked at Yale. Jerrems was tried in place...
...first punting of any consequence was now begun, but was poor on account of the wet ball. It ended with Harvard's ball at the centre of the field. Here Brewer made the best run of the game. Taking the ball on a criss-cross from Wrightington, he dodged down the centre of the field for 55 yards. Waters was now given the ball and made a touchdown...