Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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George E. Manchester, who has played half-back on the Wesleyan foot-ball eleven for three years, has been elected captain for next year...
...Must watch his man more carefully. Keep shoulders well down and come back on it well with head and shoulders. Keep back arched...
...Must be very careful to keep inside arm straight. Goes back too far. Keep shoulders down. Watch time...
...among them a goodly share of her athletes and her prominent literary men. Cranston, the captain of this year's foot-ball team, wishes to come to Harvard and will doubtless do so. The other foot-ball men who will enter with '92 are Harding, the best quarter-back Exeter has ever had, brother of Harding, quarter back on the 'Varsity this fall; Vail, lett guard, and the strongest man in the Academy; Brooks, end-rush for two years, and D. B. Dufileld, substitute full back. T. W. LaMonte and S. P. Duffield, editors of the Exonian and Literary Monthly...
...Depew said, read like the triumphal announcements of the heralds at the Olympian games. "With bat and ball and oar, on land on water, the blue has been uniformly triumphant, and Yale reigns supreme," he said. "Columbia cheers and strives to imitate, Princeton applauds and despairs, and Harvard goes back to Cambridge and kicks, but her misfortune is that she does not kick hard enough at the right time. The athletic triumphs of Yale are celebrated by the increasing numbers of the freshman class, for the students at the preparatory schools know what constitute the higher branches of a liberal...