New-York tribune., 1890-06-19
THE COLLEGE, BASEBALL RECORD.
on THE FIELD SINCE 1sos-A LON"
AND INTERESTING SERIES.

CONTESTS on THE FIELD SINCE 1sos-A LoN"
AND INTERESTING SERIES.
College baseball contests among the leading colleges
and universities began in 1o68. IN that year i"i0
Harvard and Princeton each played single ea''0
AGAINST each of the others. Harvard won both her
CANES whilo Yale defeated Princeton liarvarn con-
nued to play much better ball than any of her rivals
for several years and could Justly claim superlorS
over all competitors in 1869, 1870. 1871, 1o'2 ana
Is73 Archie bush was IIarvards goat player anu
organizer until, in 1871, he was graduated Inc
results Of his abors however. survived MS dcpa'uo
From 1865 to 1873, inclusive, Harvard won every
game played with Yale generally one game each !ci4 y
and Yale won every game but one with frih'cVoi
In 1874 Yales first great pitcher. Avery, appeared
on the scenes. Yale won both games with harNau
and the single game played with Princeton
In 1879 Yale won two games from Harvard, one
from Princeton and lost one to Princeton. Harvard
however, beat Princeton.
In 1876 lo77 and 1873 Harvard easily won hrSt
place beating Yale, Princeton and all other comers'
In 1879 an Intercollegiate Association was iorlheu'
which included Harvard, Yale Amherst Princeton
Dartmouth and Brown Yale won the championship
I'm 1850 Yale refused to continue in this assocla-
tim She objected to some Of the individual members
of one OF the mines in the association on Ihc scoe Vi
csionalism Williams was taken into the assoca-
ton Princeton won the championship OF the aSsocl@-
lion with Harvard a close second. But Yale won the
college championship uVich'H'b '''''~' -
10 o and l, and Harvard IN three out oil the Jour
games played.
In 1851 Yale again Joined the intercollegiate AS
socation and won the championship In 15ol, lco2
1s=3 1854 and 1856 when the old association was
broken up \ new one formed the following
year.
In 1855 Harvard won the championship, winning
tucIyc straight games record that has never been
equallcd.
In 1857 an association was formed that included
Yale, Harvard Columbia and Princeton. Columbia
withdrew during tic season of 1857. TINS associa
ton continued to and including the year lsS9 Yale
won the championship in 1887, 1888 and lso0
Til, year there has been no association. Yale mas
PLAYED four games with Princeton winning t"o'
losing one and ono game a tic.
Yale arranged to play four games In all with har
ward and a hfth IN case there is a tie. Two games
have becn playcd. OF which Harvard and Yale have
each won a game 1t Will thus be seen that. includ
uc the wear l-JO. baseball contests bci"eeh tlc
afrer rolr.c, have taken place for the last twenty
thrcc years The contest for the present year j
uusettlrd with Princeton out Of H. laIc na'
won the college championship IN Twelve years =
1870 l-7G. l.-O l-'l, 1-e2. l--J. l77i l--o i75,'
l--- and lreJ Harvard has won 1t tn yearr-lop7,
1863, 1870, 1771, lr72 l7'3, l7'o' lo''' 1910 anu
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princeton has never Won the college championship
durr ali the twentythr ycars Of college baseball III
ri I'm The Yale Princeton games Yale mas Won -
lost 3 with one tie. Ihe Harvard ir!nccoh SRI
Ia. resulted in UMVaTd's favor by a large margin.
I'm view OF inc game OF Yesterday. the results FOR the
la>t i've years between Yale and princeton may D'
VI "''o''''' Yale won. Princeton