Word: yale
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last intercollegiate games a warm dispute occurred as to whether T. G. Shearman, Jr., of Yale, should be entitled to use the pole owned by R. G. Leavitt of Harvard, in the pole vaulting competition. The measurers were divided on the subject; but as two are a majority of three, their decision was that the Harvard man should lend his pole. The subject, being such a novel one, has been much canvassed in athletic circles during the past week, and the universal opinion seems to be that if a man takes his own private pole to a competition...
...slightest attempt to pitch ball. He threw overhand or underhand just as it happened, and the ball was pitched back of the batsman as often as it was in front. The score was perfectly disgraceful. Occasionally Wood would take to tossing the ball easily over the plate. Then the Yale men would bat him all over the field. Too much censure cannot be given to him for the part he played in the game. If he had made the slightest effort, the Harvard men present would have supported him. As it was they could not be expected to. The Harvard...
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...base hits, McClung, Munzesheimer; first base on balls, by Sturtevant 5, by Wood 8, by Brown 3; first on errors, Harvard 1, Yale 3; struck out, Harvard 5, Yale 3; passed balls, Hulley 8, Heffelfinger 2; wild pitches, Wood 14, Sturtevant 1; flies caught, Harvard 2, Yale 4; fouls caught, Harvard 1, Yale 3; out on bases, Harvard 3, Yale 4; left on bases, Harvard 3, Yale 2; time, 2 hours...