Word: blacke
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Following the usual black-board talk in the Locker Building, the squad trotted out in a drizzling rain for its first workout on the Stadium gridiron, which has been returfed during the summer. H. R. Hardwick '15 took the backs in hand, and showed them a number of points on taking men out and general interference work, using a dummy and straw in one corner of the field. After that the backs caught punts, which gave them especially useful practice in handling a wet pig-skin. Meanwhile there was charging practice for the linesmen. For the last forty minutes...
...scoring an 8-0 victory over Princeton at Brooklyn on June 11, the University nine won the deciding contest of the three game series with Princeton. Felton let the Orange and Black down with 2 hits and in addition drove in four runs by two hits and in addition drove in four runs by two hits and a sacrifice...
...Haven, it came to light that the Harvard nine works better at Yale than here. Felton will face a difficult task this afternoon, but his record shows that he pitches even better in hostile territory than at Cambridge. In the deciding contest with Princeton, in which the Orange and Black cheering section was on its feet shouting continuously for the last three innings, he allowed but three hits. Today, even with stronger opposition from the lusty throats of Yale graduates, there is no reason why we may not expect as fine a performance. And if the team wins today what...
Eight errors by Princeton and three by the Freshmen marred the game, but served at the same time to keep the scoring very close. Meehan allowed the Orange and Black eight hits. The Crimson batsmen were unable to touch Lyons the Princeton pitcher, till the twelfth inning when they obtained four scattered hits, but failed to score...
...that time all people wore loose flowing robes. The black color is merely an adaptation of the monastic habit. Similarly, the skull caps worn by ecclesiastics to protect their tonsored heads were copied by the educational institutions, and by them, as by the Church, were preserved after they had been elsewhere discarded. The round caps first became peaker, then, the peak degenerated to a tassel. Square cloth caps were introduced by the University of Paris. The two types seem to have been combined in the modern head dress used at graduation...