Word: cage
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first shoot will take place of Friday evening in the cage, and regular shoots will follow on Wednesday and Friday evenings. As soon as possible two teams will be picked. Matches are being arranged with the Light and Heavy Artillery of the Battery A, with a team of officers of the Naval Brigade and with the Smith and Wesson team. There is also the possibility of a match with Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania...
...preliminary work, which was the same as on Thursday, was held in the Carey building on account of the rain. For the rudimentary portion of the practice, the cage has ample space, and even permits low punting. Yesterday, however, Lewis and Burden continued the lessons in breaking through, which have formed in important part of the work of the last few days. Meanwhile, Coach Dibblee gave the backs some of the finer points of their positions in connection with starting and interfering...
...Haughton and Scattergood, and most of the substitutes are back again this fall. To offset the loss of these two players, Towery, captain of the Haverford team, will play for Harvard next spring. There will be no fall practice, but directly after Christmas work will begin in the cage in the Gymnasium. Several of the men have been playing during the summer with a view to improving their game...
...idea of holding fall practice is not to pick a nine or develop team work, but to enable the captain and coaches to decide the various positions in which men should be tried, so that the cage work of the early spring may not be blind. The playing squads which have to be handled in the cage are too large to enable such a test to be made, and furthermore, a reliable test cannot be made indoors...
...backs to the pitchers. Almost all of them have been laid up more or less severely, and though they are improving, it is but slowly, and none are yet in first-class condition. The bad weather of the past week has prevented much out-door work, and necessitated cage practice, but the nine has been given unusually hard work notwithstanding, and is getting into fairly good condition...