Word: wetnessing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Walcott, '91, secretary and treasurer. The association has a good balance on hand, though the outlay for the past year has been heavy. Several attempts have been made to hold the regular autumn hare and hounds runs, but so far, the days appointed have turned out very wet and muddy, and it has been necessary to postpone them...
Harvard played its third game of the season with the Exeter team at Exeter yesterday afternoon. The ground was very wet and slippery and the ball hard to handle. The teams were made up as follows...
PRINCETON, 36; CRESCENTS. 0.The Princeton eleven defeated the Crescents of Staten Island at New York, Saturday, by a score of 36 to 0. The grounds were very slippery and wet, which prevented a larger score...
...Harvard and Yale freshmen played the first game of the series Saturday on Holmes Field, the game resulting in a victory for the home team. The ground was damp and soggy and the ball wet, which accounts for many of the errors. Both nines played well, yet both had one innings in which they went to pieces. The Harvard team went to bat in the first and succeeded in getting six runs, none earned, by means of some errors and three hits, all bunched. In the second, two more runs were added to the Harvard score by hits by Codman...
...stand was packed with pretty girls seemingly made of blue, vehicles ranged round the ropes enclosing the diamond were covered with blue and blue pennons fluttered everywhere. The Harvard contingent were forced to content themselves with a position just back of first base, and as the grass was very wet, most of them had to stand during the entire game...