Word: stupidly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Senior baseball nine yesterday won the interclass championship by defeating the Freshman team by the score of 8 to 4. For the first four innings the game was very even, but during the last six innings timely hitting by the Seniors, added to costly errors and stupid base-running by the Freshmen, secured the game for the 1905 team...
...fielded the Yale team and would have won but for an inability to bunch hits. Andover easily defeated the Yale freshmen by the score of 14 to 4, but only defeated the Harvard Freshmen by the score of 2 to 1, the latter losing two runs through stupid base-running. The game today should be close, but the chances are in favor of the Freshmen...
...usual, their base-running was stupid. Pomfret's three runs were made on an error by Waters with the bases full. Lincoln pitched a steady game for the Freshmen, and kept the hits well scattered...
...score of 9 to 6. The victory of the Freshman team was due to its ability to bunch the few hits which it made, and to superior fielding. All but one of its runs were made in the first two innings, a larger score being prevented by stupid base running. Slater, who was well supported, pitched a very steady game, allowing only four hits in all. Stone's School was unable to score until the third inning, when two men reached home on Draper's three-base...
...detection, contribute to victory, whether such acts be occasional and incidental, or habitual." President Eliot acquits both the public and the average player of any liking for these football evils. "The average college players would much rather play fair than foul. The Players have not devised or enjoyed the stupid methods of training which impair the physical condition of most of them before the important games take place." President Eliot concludes his discussion of football with these words: "On the question, whether or not football victories do, as a matter of fact, contribute to the growth and regulation...