Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Porter and he carried the sphere over goal. Score. 16-0. Harding made the next touch down. Goal. Harding made his third, but no goal was kicked. Butler soon got the ball and scored. Goal. The ball was brought out, but only for a moment, for Woodman carried it back. No goal. Score. 36-0. Both sides indulged in some kicking, but Tufts saw that was no use and her half-back ran. The Harvard team tried to stop him by turning somersaults in the air above him, and he was not stopped until he met Porter. Harvard succeeded, however...
Edgerly makes a strong run, but Harvard's rush lines are too much for Tufts, and Sears darts behind the posts. Goal. Score 54-0. The Harvard team work Tufts back again, and Trafford runs around the rushers and touches the ball down. No goal. On the kick-out Sears got the ball and ran over the line. No goal. Score 64-0. Tufts again kicked out and Sears returned the ball. Tufts fumbled and Sears made the last touchdown. Time. Final score, 35 minutes, 68-0. For Tufts, Edgerly did the best work, while Sears, Harding and Holden...
...play was extremely good and remarkably even; for though Sears won three straight sets, each set was stubbornly contested and there was no time when the match was at all one-sided. Mr. Sears played a very strong game, his strokes from the back of the court being especially hard and well placed. Mr. Lee volleyed accurately, and his play throughout was strong and steady...
...herself an honorable position in athletics. Brinley, Paddock and Wright have well represented her in tennis. The college boasts of a nine and an eleven which have been victorious over colleges of much larger size, and it is seldom that a prize is not brought back from the Mott Haven games...
...altogether too much fumbling and high tackling. The make-up of the team has not as yet been fully decided upon, but will probably comprise the following men with perhaps one or two changes: Rushers, Wallac (left end), Gill, Cross, Corbin (centre), Woodruff, Rhodes, Pratt (right end); quarter-back, Beecher; half-backs, Morrison, Graves, '88's; back, Graves, '91. Of these Wallace, Gill, Corbin, Woodruff, Beecher and Morrison were on last year's team. Cross was substitute on last year's crew and gives promise of being a valuable man. Rhodes is also a good man and although a good...