Word: wood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Work for the base-ball cage at Princeton has been commenced. It is to be of wood with windows in the top and will be 150 feet long and 60 feet wide...
Fownes Bros.' and Dent's heavy gloves in furnishings room. A good line of warm Scotch wood gloves; also heavy underwear. Choice patterns of 4-inhands. Look at our Mackintoshes and rubber coats before the next rainy day. Plenty of warm overshoes and thin rubbers...
...dropped on the ball. On a fumble by Yale, Porter got the ball, and, in trying to run, ran outside the fair line. Another rush was made by Porter and Sears followed him, but ran outside. The ball was now taken in five yards to a down. Porter and Wood made good rushes and Boyden advanced five yards. Porter again gained five yards, but the ball remained in the middle of the field and was surrendered to Yale on four downs. Graves now tried to rush. The ball was fumbled by Yale, and Cumnock dropped out. Rushes by Butler, Boyden...
...place. Boyden now made the finest run of the game, but on the next down Harvard fumbled and Yale got possession of the bail. Bull punted and Porter tried for a fair catch. He was prevented and a claim of interference was allowed, this giving Harvard five yards. Sears, Wood and Boyden each made five yards but the ball soon went to Yale on four downs. It was now within two feet of Yale's goal line. Bull tried to punt it out but Trafford stopped the kick and Wurtemburg made a touchdown for safety. Score, Yale 11, Harvard...
Harvard.- Rushers, Bancroft, Butler, Trafford, Markoe. Wood, Woodman and Cumnock; quarter-back, Harding; half-backs, Perry and Boyden; full-back, Saxe...