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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have had to reach the position they now hold by the hardest training. When, then, the team goes down to New Haven and by good running wins the games from Yale, it is rather hard for the men to be greeted on their return to Cambridge with hardly a word of congratulation. The team did their best and this lack of recognition on the part of the men about the college cannot but be discouraging. The college has a chance to correct this little act of thoughtlessness by showing the team as they go off today how much it appreciates...
Almost everything that goes to make an athletic meeting a success in the ordinary sense of the word was wanting at the meeting yesterday afternoon. To begin with, the weather was unfavorable. The afternoon was cold and raw and the heavy rains for the two days before had left the track in a deplorable condition, - any attempt at fast time being practically out of the question. There were certain regrettable flaws in the conduct of the meeting, - no announcing, for instance, being done at any time. The crowd which gathered to see the games was small - Harvard's delegation...
...worth watching and taking example from. But the feature which characterized the Yale playing was the snap and precision with which they played their game. If one moved, all moved, backing each other up, working rapidly and with the regularity of clock work. It was ball playing from the word...
...want to add one more word to the Ninety-four nine. The object of yesterday's game was to see whether they could play better ball than the freshmen. Now killing time is not playing base ball. If a game is to be won, it must be won by squarely superior playing, not by delaying the game in the shameless way in which the Ninety-four captain dragged out yesterday's match intentionally...
...athletic association deserves a good word for the energy with which it arranged for the games on Holmes Field. A large athletic meeting is a serious undertaking to handle, and the large number of entries is a sign of the success which has attended their efforts. We wish that the meeting itself could have gone off rather more smoothly. While realizing the difficulties of managing a large meeting, especially when the weather is so raw that the competitors do not want to stand waiting any longer than possible, we still think that more foresight and better management would have made...