Word: wet
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...work was full of life and showed that the men are in excellent shape. In the open practice, the signal work was followed by a short period of punting practice in which, Burr kicked to Newhall, Starr, and Foster. Newhall handled the ball in splendid style considering the extremely wet weather. Kersburg will do very little work before the Yale game, although he is rapidly recovering from the injury to his knee. Captain Foster played at left half in the defensive work in the cage, but was not tried in the scrimmage. As soon as the first eleven had left...
...baseball game, scheduled to be played by the University team with Colby yesterday afternoon, was cancelled, on account of the wet condition of the field...
Since the University team returned from the South little or nothing has been accomplished. No practice was held on Monday on account of the wet condition of the field, and yesterday cold weather hampered the work. A great deal, however, was accomplished by the long, hard practices at Richmond in developing team play and inspiring confidence; and improvement over the crude play against Trinity and Vermont is expected...
...baseball games which were scheduled for last Wednesday and Saturday with Ursinus and Trinity respectively had to be cancelled on account of the wet condition of the university field. Nevertheless the team has had two outdoor practices. At the first one, which took place Wednesday, no game was played but the second team took the field while the rest of the squad was given batting practice. The ground was too wet to allow fast playing. The fielding was good but the batting showed the great lack of practice from which the team is suffering...
...Throughout the early work the fielding and base-running have been fairly satisfactory as the new men have worked hard and progressed accordingly. As long as the men were confined to the Cage no advanced work was possible, and since outdoor practice began less than a week ago the wet ground and cold weather have interfered with the work of the fielders...