Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock on Soldiers Field this afternoon is not as powerful an aggregation as the Holy Cross outfit that defeated the Crimson last Wednesday, it will probably show considerable strength both on the attack and on the defense. Ample reason for such a statement is given by the string of six victories that the Maroon and White has gathered out of seven games played. Its unbeaten record was finally broken at Providence last Wednesday, when it went down to defeat before Brown's fourteenth inning rally that broke...
...true that a mere string of wins does not necessarily testify to a team's strength, but the nines that Holy Cross has defeated are by no means third rate ones, while some of them are among the strongest contenders for eastern of southern intercollegiate championship. Among these are Princeton, Yale and Vermont. Princeton lost only by the small margin of 4-3, but Yale was swamped 14-1, and on May 7 the Purple again piled up a large score when it crushed Tufts 12-1 at Worcester...
...remain and undefeated teams of the college baseball season in itself amounts to little when the comparative youngness of the season is considered; but when the final bickering over the mythical championship starts, the head-start of these two teams will without doubt be of value. Penn State's string of ten straight victories is undeniably a real achievement, and in spite of the fact that a number of the nines defeated are not on the top rung of college baseball teams, such respectable teams as Navy and Georgetown are included on the list. However, Penn State's first real...
Captain Peters, the veteran first string catcher, injured his arm in the South Carolina game, but Kernan, who usually plays the initial sack, proved a good substitute...
...team had a meet with Northeastern. Although everyone expected the Crimson runners to win, the joy of being ahead seemed to put new life in their blood, and they ran up a surprisingly large score, even without the services of Captain D. F. O'Connell and several other first string runners...