Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Unnumbered lasting aeons echo down
Leeds opened the game with a fly to right field, which was beautifully caught by Hall, with one hand, while running. Hodges then got his base on a safe hit, but was left, as the next two strikers retired in good order. The Bostons scored one run, Barnes getting his...
VII. In the event of any player holding or running with the ball being tackled, and the ball fairly held, he may at once cry "have it down": he shall be allowed to place it on the ground unmolested; but he need not do so until his own side come...
A detachment of five hundred from the main band of destroyers made a raid upon the Boston and Albany Railroad, tearing up its track the entire distance between Boston and Springfield, each Sophomore putting one thousand rails in his vest-pocket; freight-trains were trampled under foot, station-houses were...
After wreaking vengeance on the helpless railroad, the detachment rejoined the main body, which had now reached Cambridge, and a general work of devastation was inaugurated; telegraph-poles were torn down and eaten by the more voracious of the monsters; paving-stones were torn up and thrown into Charles River...