Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tackles hard and low, and keeps his eyes open. On the whole he is about as good as any man in the rush line. Butler is slow in getting through. He runs hard and follows the ball well; but is apt to lose his head a little. Wood backs up well, and blocks and gets through fairly well, but he fumbles badly and tackles very high. Brooks understands the position of centre-rush, and runs his team well. His chief fault is that he relies too much on his strength, tackling high. Woodman is slow in getting through, and fails...
...number of men are held back from signing for uniforms by the thought that a drum and fife corps may be formed. This statement may account for the fact that so few men, especially of '87, have as yet signed the book at Leavitt & Peirce's. '87 and '88 are the only classes in college who had the good fortune to participate in the last presidential torchlight procession. Remembering how important and successful a feature the drum, fife and bone battalion then was, we are not surprised at this present hesitation to sign among the ranks, as long as there...
...students who accompanied the eleven were disappointed and the alumni who visited the field in the hope of seeing the team play as Princeton teams 'used to play" were disappointed. With but two or three exceptions every man seemed to play as poorly as he knew how. The backs fumbled the ball far oftener than they held it, and the rushers were expert at getting the ball near the line only to give it into the hands of an opponent and see it kicked back to the middle of the field. The two halves of the game were in marked...
...yesterday was a great success. The scent was laid well. The direction of the hunt was through Norton's Woods, where the scent was lost, to Somerville, into Medford, along the racing track at Mystic Park, and back by way of College Hill, running across the foot-ball field at Tufts, where a game was in progress. The bags were found just west of Porter's Station. There were twenty-six men at the break. The first hound in was T. C. Craig, '87, who acted as master of the hounds. R. T. Paine, Jr., was a close second. Baldwin...
...singles. Sears took the first set easily, the score being 6-1. In the second set Snow played a much stronger game, but finally the set went to Sears by a score of 7-5. The play of both men in this last set was very fine. Snow's back-handed strokes were especially noticeable. It being quite dark at the end of this set, play was postponed until to-day at 12 o'clock...