Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Beecher, the quarter-back of the Yale eleven, has been elected captain of the team...
...course lay through Norton's woods almost straight to College Hill; through the college grounds to North Avenue and back by way of West Somerville to Porter's Station where the break for home was made. The bags were found. The hares won by nearly half an hour. The first hare in was F. B. Dana, '88. H. Kuhn, '87 was second. There will be as many more hunts as the weather will allow...
...annual complaint - (vide CRIMSONS for seven years back) - is here again, just a little in advance of the first of December. The water works in the gymnasium are again out of order. We have been told by the goody - that is to say, the cleanly, - that when they come in hot and exhausted from a foot-ball game and wish to bathe their bruised limbs in tepid steam and ease their wounds, nothing but the coldest of water can be had to solace them water so cold that it parches the skin and cracks the muscles and sends...
...ground. Crane has two chances to pass Perry who would have a clear field, but does not see his opportunity. Crane loses ten yards. Higginson gains five yards and Piper gets in a twenty-yard run. Perry and Hunnewell gain a little ground, but soon the ball goes back ten yards on downs. Perry makes a long run without gaining anything. Slocum loses ground and Yale gets the ball. Yale's kick is stopped and it is Harvard's ball. Back ten yards. Piper runs ten yards forward, and the next time the ball is put in play it goes...
...elevens were made up as follows Yale: rushers, Lentilhon, Clanson, Hanson, Newell, Lee, Strait (capt.), Townsend; quarter-back, Wurtemburg: halves, Morrison, Ireland; back, Tracy. Harvard: rushers, Crehore, Piper, Higginson, Woods, Dexter, Slocum (capt.) Harding; halves, Perry, Hunnewell; back, Sears. Referee, Mr. Herrick of Technology...