Word: worst
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...though something more might have been done to put the approaches to the field in better condition for Saturday's game. It would not have required the outlay of many dollars to have thrown down enough old boards to have made at least a temporary walk over the worst of that very muddy place near the street. Fortunately people who go to football games are accustomed to inconveniences, and so the crowd was inclined to regard the whole affair as a joke...
1880.In the first game Harvard suffered her worst defeat at the hands of Yale in baseball...
...freshmen, it is folly to predict much. The Yale '97 men only arrived on Saturday and took their first row today. As between Columbia and Harvard, the latter is rowing the better. Even "Bob" Cook told me that the Columbia freshman crew is the "worst freshman crew" he ever saw. Still, their stroke, Pierrepont is an excellent oar and their improvement may be more rapid than Harvard '97, whose crew today was rowing in very fair form. Hollister, by the way, has been put back in the boat at No. 2 in place of Sleeper...
...playing of the Harvard nine was wretched. Highlands hit five men and was pounded inning after inning. Scannell was missed. O'Malley played a plucky but ragged game. He showed weakness where steadiness was most needed. The batting was puny, and the fielding erratic. As usual, however, the worst feature was the head work. The nine did such work in base-running and in attempting put-outs as would have been expected from men just beginning to learn the game. Harvard men could not but be ashamed of these childish plays
...pleasure that we not and shall note every good showing which the nine makes. And yet even the staunchest supporter must have come near despair after Saturday's game. The playing was undeniably wretched. Not only were the men weak at the bat and unsteady in the field, but, worst of all, they gave no indication by their head-work that they had ever played an intercollegiate game of ball before. The freshmen showed more knowledge of the game a week before than the 'varsity did on Saturday. Not for years, at the shortest reckoning, has any Harvard nine made...