Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...followed closely with a fine tackle of Sullivan, who had cleared the line and tried to duplicate Wrightington's run. After thus distinguishing himself Brown became unsteady and failed to drop two goals when he was given the opportunity. E. H. Davis also made a good tackle, throwing Wrightington back for a considerable loss...
Professor Carr brings back many photographs, insect collections, plants and geological data, as well as a collection of marine invertebrate animals. Professor Gill made a study of the Mingsyah peninsula, with excellent results. Professor Carr concludes that the American and Queenland ice-caps are not one and the same, but always have been separate, and that the center of Greenland is highlands...
...last year's 'Varsity squad, C. Brewer, Rice, Gould, Nowell, Holt and Gonterman will not return to college. The men who will be in the University and who are expected to play are Captain Wrightington and Dunlop '97, half-backs; Beale '97, quarter-back; Cabot '98, left end; J. N. Shaw '98, right guard; F. Shaw '97, centre. Doucette L. S., Donald '99, Haughton '99, Moulton '98, and Brown '98, last year's leading substitutes are also with the squad...
Columbia rows a stroke consisting of a body swing prolonged very far back and ending with a short sharp leg drive. The oars are rowed out of water and the feather held almost to the catch. It is an effective stroke for a stern wind if the crew be well together...
Cornell seems to have abandoned her old time stroke for a modified copy of the English one with a fairly long body swing. The slides are held until the body is slightly back of the perpendicular and then the stroke is finished with a powerful leg drive. The arms are but slightly broken at the finish and there is a tendency to drop out at the full reach. The blade work is excellent and the shell moves smoothly through the water...