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...those who had appeared for the first time the previous year. Hooper pitched, but his delivery had ceased to be effective; Thatcher caught; Kent, the captain, played first base; F. W. Thayer, '78, second; Leeds, short stop; Tyng, third; with Tower, Ernst, and Latham in the field. Sixteen games were played, of which only seven were won. Yale won the series in two consecutive games of 9 to 4, and 11 to 4, respectively. Three games with the Bostons proved more disastrous than usual. The Princeton was the only college club over which our Nine was victorious, and the championship...
...proved a less brilliant year than the preceding. Only sixteen games were played, ten being victories...
...course, will always keep to the straight-away race system, which is a better test, perhaps, of the relative merits of four or five crews which may race at one time; but under the conditions at Oxford - a narrow river and fifteen or sixteen competing crews - nothing better could be devised than the bumping races which have been rowed for so many years...
...there was in deciding the winner of this contest, and how very hard it was to draw the line between the "legitimate" and the "juggling." Then, too, the length of the performance grew a little tiresome after twenty minutes or so, and while one man used clubs weighing nearly sixteen pounds, another's were only about five pounds. Some rules to regulate these things seem to be needed. Let there be two classes according to the weight of the men, say, over and under a hundred and fifty pounds. Then prescribe a minimum weight of clubs for each class...
...original Harvard Hall was destroyed one hundred and sixteen years...