Word: backed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rush of fifteen yards. Trafford kicks to Weeks, who is thrown by Hutchinson. Harvard getting the ball on four downs gains a few yards by a rush by Lee, but loses ten yards by Trafford's muffing the ball which he afterward secured. Then rushes and kicks by the backs advanced the ball near Daromouth's goal line and Fearing soon scored a touchdown. No goal. Score, 19-0. Dartmouth advanced the ball about twenty yards, aided by a good rush of Humphreys.' Dean broke through the rush line and securing the ball rushed from the centre of the field...
...second half began with Dartmcuth's ball which Harvard secured on an attempt to kick by the full back. Rushes by Lee, Fearing, Hutchinson and Blanchard brought the ball to the twenty-five yard line when Trafford tried for goal but failed. Stickney was here substituted for Blanchard. Harvard got the ball on three downs and Lee soon scored a touch down. No goal. Score 32-0. Good rushes by Humphrey and Lakeman gained thirty-five yards for Dartmouth, but Harvard got the ball on three downs. Lee rushed well but lost ball to Dartmouth who regained ten yards...
...eleven against Dartmouth's heavy team deserves praise in some respects though there were several very weak points. At times during the second half Harvard played a lifeless game and lost much ground by poor work. Several times the rush line was broken through almost without resistance or eared back bodily. The tackling was not good at times but the blocking, rushing and team work showed a decided improvement since the last game. The result of the game on the whole was encouraging...
Yale defeated the Williams college team at New Haven by a score of 36-0. Yale's backs did good work, but her rushers showed lack of team play, while the Williams men showed up strongly and kept Yale from scoring for some time. The two Morison brothers were Yale's half-backs and both did remarkably good work in rushing and kicking. B. Morison played half-back on the Yale team in the fall of '86, but the next year he was out of college and last year he did not play. He is now said to be playing...
...teams were made up as follows: Second Eleven-rushers, Tilton, Cumming, Vail, Rogers, (centre) Hill, Dodge, Alwood; quarter-back, Hallo-well, half-backs, Moen and Johnson; full-back. Crane. Ninety-two-rushers, Chase, Putnam, Steadman, Pinkham (centre) Rantoul, Draper, McDonald; quarter-back. Cheney; half-backs, White and Henry; full-back Forbes...