Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...soon as the work began to be settled, prospects were encouraging, with all the old players back, and several new men of promise, among them Mills, DeWitt, Jerrems, Louis Hinkey, Brown, and Chadwick. But within a few weeks the team played wretchedly slow and listless football. The veterans were the poorest. At the same time came the accidents that always occur during the middle of the season. Butterworth, Beard, Adee, and several of the new candidates developed physical troubles, rather more being in the nature of sickness, than sprains or bruises. This state of affairs grew worse until at least...
Charles Brewer '96, of Boston, half-back, fitted at Hopkinson's School, where he was captain of the eleven. He has played behind the 'varsity line since he first entered Harvard. Age 21, height 5 ft. 10 in., weight...
...practice this afternoon was an hour long and there was only a single injury, that of Thorne, whose back was slightly wrenched in bucking the centre. He will be all right tomorrow...
...allowed the play to drag. Woods and Bull, the ends tackled finely and were good in breaking up interference. Very few of Columbia's gains were made around the ends. Tackle was the weakest part of the line. partly owing to the fact that the tackles were called back so frequently to run with the ball that they were not able to attend to their positions when they were in the line. The centre men have not yet learned to play low, so by simply brushing them aside Columbia made many gains...
...superiority of the straight, old-fashioned game. Consequently the principal stress is laid on the interference, the improvement of which will be the chief aim of the practice in the time that remains. Jerrems showed up very well today and is pushing Armstrong hard or right half back...