Word: worst
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ground. The blocking in the rush line is lamentably weak, the opponents coming through with scarcely an effort, at the same time making enormous holes in the line. A great improvement in this respect must be made, for a team with a weak rush line cannot accomplish much. The worst and most fatal fault of all is that of losing the ball. There is no excuse for this continual fumbling, and unless '94 can improve in this respect, they cannot expect to make a good showing against any strong team...
Harvard 13; Hartford 19.The nine played a remarkably poor game yesterday afternoon, and was defeated by the Hartfords in the worst played contest seen on Holmes field during the year. The men ylayed with no life at all except at the bat, where they did fair work...
...Harvard nine played at its worst in the field yesterday afternoon, and presented Wilmington with ten unearned runs and an easily won game. The chill air could not account by any means for the ridiculously loose game which the Harvard fielders played. The men batted well and would have won if their fielding had not been utterly without excuse...
...development, however, has seemed slow as yet. If anything may be judged from Thursday's game, which was the best the nine has played so far, a vast improvement must be shown within the next week or two. The men are not at all steady in the field. Worst of all, there is apparently no field captain-at any rate no one "calls the flies." There must be a radical change in this particular. The coaching when men are on bases is also very poor. On Thursday a man was coached to come home on a pop fly, with only...