Word: wet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Owing to yesterday's wet weather and cloudy skies, the eleven had only about twenty minutes of practice. Most of the time the second eleven had the ball. The defense of the first was very good considering that both Mackie and Acton were laid off, the former on account of the death of a relative, the latter because of a lame back. Wilson and Laimbeer took their places. The first held the ball long enough to make one touchdown, though the sharp work of the second made this not the easiest task in the world. Waters played a while...
...weather on Saturday was anything but satisfactory for the 'varsity games. It was so poor in fact that the bicycle race and all the field events were postponed till four o'clock today. It rained too hard and the track was too wet and heavy, and the air too chilly for more than ordinarily good times to be made. The one exception to this was in the half mile run. E. B. Hill '94, although heavily handicapped, won this event from scratch in the remarkable time of 1 min., 58 4-5 sec. This is the best time that...
...defensive play was good on both sides, especially the first during the second half, when Mackie and Acton were at guard. There was considerable fumbling, but that was more or less excusable on account of the wet weather...
...scrub game between the Terriers and the Hoodoes was postponed yesterday on account of the wet field. It will be played off on Nortons this afternoon. Tomorrow the Polliwogs will play the winner of today's game...
...first run, and in the third she added two by some clever work with the stick and on bases. The rain which had been falling in a slow drizzle, then quickened into a pelting shower. With the juniors at the bat in the fourth, the ball became so wet and slippery that the freshmen seemed unable any longer to handle it. They made four errors, and let three unearned runs come in. This tied the score, and, alter another inning had been played in the rain, the umpire called the game. Linfield kept up his good work, and made...