When we come to base-ball, the accounts and statistics in Mr. Hurd's book are very interesting and significant. Writing concerning the year 1873, Mr. Hurd says: "In the last Harvard game at Cambridge, Yale was completely out-played, making but three base-hits off the Harvard pitcher, while the Yale fielding was so poor that 29 runs were made on 18 base hits. The final score stood 29 to 5. With this disastrous game ended the chain of light defeats which Yale experienced from Harvard. Up to the end of '73 there can be no doubt that the Harvard nines were uniformly better than the Yale nines. Harvard's advantage lay in the number of excellent clubs in and near Boston, from whom she learned a scientific knowledge of the game. This is shown by her uniform steadiness and team work, a feature noticeably absent from Yale nines."

Out of 162 college games played, Yale has won 117 and lost 45. Yale has won 29 games from Harvard and lost 29 games to her. The total number of runs made by Yale and her opponents, including games with professionals, amounts to 3,808, and opponents, 3,271.

Best fielding records from 1879 to the present time is as follows:-

Catcher, Hunt of Amherst, .989

Pitcher, Nettleton of Dartmouth, .981

1st base, Childs of Yale, 1.000

2nd base, Harris of Princeton, .966

3d base, Beaman of Harvard, .944

Short stop, Noyes of Yale, .917

Left fielder, Foster of Harvard, 1.000

Centre field, Wadleigh, Reyolds, Princeton, 1.000

Centre field, Wadleigh, Reynolds, Princeton, 1.000

Right field, Kellogg, Yale, 1.000

The best batting records are both held by Nichols of Harvard, whose highest single average is .500 and highest total average .905.

Four Yale men have played on Yale teams five years-Condict, '69; C. Deming, '72; Bentley, '73, and Maxwell, '75. Eight men played four years, among them Walter C. Camp, '80.