Word: springfields
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...beaten and all of these may easily be done away with. In the first place the team did not practice long enough. All real attention to the subject was put off until the cold, windy weather made it impossible to hit anything, and so the team went to Springfield trusting in a great measure to the chances of the day. If the scheme recently proposed is only put through and matches are held throughout the winter on mild days, we shall at least have some sort of an idea of the ability of our team. Secondly, most of the time...
Sundry communications and editorials having appeared lately in the DAILY CRIMSON, Boston Herald and other papers, stating that the seats at Springfield were insecure and charging me with criminal carelessness for not having taken precautions for ascertaining their safety, I wish to say that on the afternoon of November 21 two expert builders, Mr. Shaw and Mr. Slocum, were sent to the grounds by the city of Springfield, with authority to hold an official inspection of the seats and to pronounce upon their safety...
...very serious accident at the Yale-Princeton game yesterday is an illustration, if one were needed, of the dangers of having seats and grand stands insecurely built. At the Harvard-Yale game at Springfield there came very near being a similar accident, in my opinion. The seats near the centre of the Harvard side, to the north, where I was, got swaying so badly near the end of the game that everybody left the upper rows. It would have taken very little more to bring the whole thing down-I think another touch-down for Harvard would have done...
...rejoicings over the Springfield victory, we have neglected to comment on some features of the occasion which must not, however, be overlooked. There were several particulars in which the accommodations for spectators were sadly deficient. The seats on the right of the field were so insecurely erected that towards the close of the game they swayed dangerously. If many persons had not prudently stepped down from the upper tiers, and if the excitement on that side had not considerably abated soon after Harvard's second touch-down, there must have come an accident as terrible as that at Eastern Park...
...receipts at the Springfield game amounted...