Word: wild
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next three innings Amherst was blanked, while Harvard made two runs. In the seventh one was added to the score of each side. This was Amherst's last run, but our nine now just began to bat, and by tremendous hitting, aided by passed balls, a fumble and a wild throw, scored eight runs, three being earned...
...inning, the Crimson also got two runs. In the next three innings Amherst was blanked, while Harvard added three to its score, one being the home run by Willard in the fifth. In the seventh inning, Stearns and Marble each got a hit, and the former scored on a wild throw and a passed ball. For Harvard, Nichols and Allen both flied out, Willard got his base on balls, and scored on Smith's two bagger. In attempting to make third on this hit, Smith was put out. In the eighth inning, Harris, Kimball, and Hunt, all knocked long flies...
Earned runs, Amherst, 1; Harvard, 5. Home runs, Stuart, Willard. Three-base hits, Nichols, Willard, Winslow and Beaman. Two-base hits, Nichols and Smith. First base on balls, by Nichols, 0; by Stuart, 5. Struck out, by Nichols, 9; by Stuart, 2. Passed balls, Allen, 2; Stearns, 5. Wild pitches, Nichols, 2; Stuart, 4. Umpire, Wyckoff. Time...
...Band, whose efforts at this time were confined for the most part to bass drum solos. The more prudent among the students took advantage of the wait to explore the adjacent hostelries for sand wiches and other refreshments. At quarter to eleven the train rolled in. A scene of wild confusion ensued. The members of the nine were borne in triumph to their barge, while a second short but decisive fight for seats in the other wagons took place...
Most of the undergraduates can remember the wild enthusiasm which greeted the return of the 'varsity nine last year after its victorious trip to New Haven and Amherst. Few will ever forget the ovation the nine received as it came down by the yard in the midst of a blaze of rockets and red fire, saluted by the wild "rah, rah" of a thousand students, serenaded by the weird strains of the Brass Band, which played, replayed, and then played over again the only air it had attempted to master,- "Yale men say." Nor will the saturnalia that followed...