Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yale defeated the Institute of Technology on Saturday by a score of 96 points to 0. Watkinson, the half-back, kicked thirteen goals...
...Princeton eleven is at present playing as follows: rushers, W. Spalding, Morse, Cowan, George, Irvine, Cook, Wagenhurst; quarter-back, Sloan, half-backs, L. Price and Ames; full-back, Savage, (Capt.) Substitutes, F. Spalding, Black and Spier...
...this half, did little but fumble. The game was started at three o'clock with Stevens in possession of the ball. The Stevens men tried to run with it, but in spite of the high tackling of the Harvard rushers, they did not gain much ground. Then a Stevens back muffed the ball, and Remington dropped on it. Sears kicked the ball so far over our rushers heads that the Stevens men had plenty of time to return it, giving our men a chance to fumble the ball, which they gladly accepted, and there might have been trouble if Butler...
...Porter carried the ball down to the Stevens' line, and Fletcher made a touchdown. The try for goal failed, the ball going sideways across the field, and Fletcher made another touchdown from which no goal was kicked. Porter got the ball from the kick-out and ran it back almost to the line, when Fletcher carried it across again. No goal, the ball being kicked fair where Stevens got it. When they next lined up, Smith got through and stopped a kick, and Remington dropping on the ball, made another touchdown. No goal. When the ball was kicked out Porter...
...that the Harvard eleven has played with any eleven which has met Princeton, and our eleven of this year certainly needs support by the college if any eleven ever did. The following men will compose the team this afternoon: Rushers, Harding, Butler, Smith, Brooks, Wood, Remington and Faulkner. Quarter-back. Fletcher; halfbacks, Porter and Sears; full-back, Peabody. Substitutes, Boyden, Slade, Dudley, Bancroft and Griffing. Besides the game with Stevens to-day the following are the games for the next fortnight. Oct. 20, Technology. Oct. 23, Dartmouth. Oct. 30, Technology. After this last date the championship games come once...