Word: wet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, CONN., Oct. 24. - The Yale and B. A. A. elevens played a good game at the Yale Field this afternoon. A wet ball caused constant fumbling, but the visitors kept Yale from scoring for 18 minutes. The playing was fierce and Borden sustained a broken collar bone. Yale played a constant kicking game, punting the ball into Boston ground and forcing their opponents to rush it back by bucking the Yale centre, which often failed. Butterworth made all the three touchdowns and kicked a goal from the field. Murphy, Wade and DeWitt made the greatest runs for Yale...
Owing to the wet condition of the grounds there was no outdoor practice yesterday afternoon, but it will be continued as usual today...
Yesterday's matches in the intercollegiate tennis tournament at New Haven were postponed by wet ground. This will probably postpone the finals till Saturday...
...balls had been pitched them, but the succeeding batsmen could not advance them. In the second, Princeton was easily retired. For Harvard, Winslow made a scratch hit, stole second, went to third on a sacrifice, but was put out while trying to steal home. Altman was carefully drying the wet ball, and the attempted steal was nearly successful...
...hounds, 52 in number, lost the trail after leaving the wet ground and split into two divisions. E. B. Hill '94, raced in far ahead of the men he was with. Emerson and Coolidge were the first two men in the second lot, which had come by a different route. As, by the rules, all the hounds should have staid by Emerson, the master of hounds, until he ordered them to break, the first lot of men were disqualified...