Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Exeter foot-ball team has been finally chosen and consists of the following men: Rushers, Cranston, centre; Brooks and Hill, ends; Knowles and Frazer, guards; Stickney and Wales, tacklers; Harding, quarter-back, McClung and Morrison, half-backs; Farquhar, full-back. Eight of this team played on last year's eleven...
...ball series this fall. Capt. Cook's failure to return to college this year has done much to dampen the enthusiasm of those who were most confident in our chances for the pennant. With all of last year's eleven but Savage, who captained the team and played full-back, it seemed more than probable that the disputed championship of last year would be decided in favor of Princeton. Cook and Moore, however, failed to return, and in them the team lose two of the best rushers ever in college, as well as the captain elected last year. Wagenhurst...
...ball and Harding squirmed through and made the first touchdown. No goal. Score 4-0. In three minutes the second touchdown was made by Porter. Goal. Score 10-0. The ball was kicked out and Tech brought the ball, on an excusable muff of Harvard's half-back, near our goal. A good rush by Wood was followed by a magnificent rush by Harding who scored the third touchdown. Goal made the score 16-0. Bad work by Tech allowed Bancroft to make the fourth touchdown followed by a goal making the score 22-0. Continued bad work allowed Harding...
...Princeton nine, save three, will be back next season...
...possess any kind of athletic ability to the notice of the H. A. A. in another column. This year it is the duty of every loyal Harvard man who is worth anything on the track or field to take hold with a will and help his college win back the Mott Haven cup. Last year, after seven years of continuous victory, we lost the cup to Yale's exceptionally strong team. Only the most earnest and strenuous efforts can this year restore Harvard to the position she so long held at the head of track and field athletics...