Word: winded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that good playing was impossible for the Harvard team. The Williams men were evidently used to playing in mud, for the condition of the ground did not appear to hamper them much. Time was called at 3 18, Harvard having the ball and the Williams team playing with the wind in its favor. The ball was kept in the centre of the field when it was forced to Williams ten-yard line. A rush and a kick by Williams carried the ball into Harvard territory. Sears punted and Harvard got the ball on a fumble. Rushes by Sears, Wadsworth...
...Harvard eleven played the Wesleyan team at Middletown, Saturday, and defeated it by a score of 34-0. The day was fine for football, there being but little wind; but the ground was muddy and slippery from the recent rains. The teams were made up as follows...
...intercollegiate tennis tournament began last Monday morning on the grounds of the New Haven lawn tennis club. The high wind, and the state of the courts, which were badly washed, prevented the members of the eight colleges from making any very brilliant plays. In the preliminary round, Brown was beaten by Hall, of Columbia, 6-2, 6-2. Sears beat Johnson of Princeton, 6-1, 6-2; in the second round, Sears also beat Wright of Trinity, 6-2, 6-2. In the doubles, Chase and Tailer defeated Woodruff and Deane, of Amhearst, by a score...
...preliminary contest to select the players who are to go to New Haven October 8 to represent Harvard in the struggle for the intercollegiate team championship tookplace yesterday afternoon on Jarvis field. The day was so raw that none of the men played at their best, and the wind blowing directly across the court hindered to some degree careful placing. In the singles H. Tallant beat Tailer 6-4, 7-5. Tallant accordingly meets Sears for first place...
...account of the examinations but few men witnessed the game between Harvard and Columbia on Holmes field yesterday afternoon. The wind was high and gusty all the afternoon, blowing almost directly up the field, making fielding difficult. Some long flies which would have been hits but for the wind were caught out. The fielding of both nines was sharp, Columbia making but 5 errors, Harvard, 4. Bates, although he was not quite in such good form as usual, giving 4 men bases on balls, held the visitors down to three hits, one of which was a scratch hit, and struck...