Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard - Rushers, Bancroft, Remington, Wood, Brooks (captain), Woodman, Butler and Harding; quarterback, Fletcher; half-backs, Porter and Jones; full back, Peabody; substitutes, Faulkner and Boyden...
Andover - Rushers, Shaw, Brainard, Hotchkiss, Aldrich, Knowlton, Hamilton and Perrin; quarter-back, Bancroft; half-backs, Dennison (captain), and L. Mowry; full back, Haskell; substitutes, Dilworth and W. Mowry...
Stevens played a very courageous game (with four substitutes against the Yale 'Varsity eleven complete save one), but without judgment or discipline; the quarter-back was very heedless - at least once he was not looking when the ball was snapped back to him; the most brilliant individual plays therefore, availed nothing for Stevens. The score was 54 to 0. The game was watched with keen interest by several intending adversaries of Yale. - N. Y. Evening Post...
...done by the freshman team so far shows clearly that it is one of the best that has entered college in some time. For a year or two past, freshman teams have been wont to look upon the Exeter game with a certain awe, but only a few years back Exeter was often defeated by the freshmen, and why should this not be repeated again this year? The Exeter eleven is lighter than it has been in several years, and with a strong team play, coupled with a little head work, there is no reason why Saturday night should...
...good. In the tennis world, Harvard has taken a good stand, both in college and out. One of our graduates has recently been rated at the head of the 'world's' players by an English authority, and judging by present tendencies there will be several more Harvard men to back up his reputation. We have unusual facilities for field tennis in Harvard, but could not an arrangement be made for some sort of a racquet court, where the more skill-requiring game of court tennis could be played. It might be under the auspices...