Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...success of the class game this afternoon will depend very much on whether or not the spectators are kept back of the side-lines...
...Russian ascendancy would be a set-back to civilization. - (a) Effect on England. - (1) Religious and commercial civilization: Nation, Oct. 4, p. 250. - (2) Best colonizer in the world. - (3) Champion of free government. - (b) On Western Europe. - (1) Overthrow balance of power in the West: Spectator, Sept. 29, p. 392. - (c) On United States. - (1) Our interest in international affairs identical with England's. - (2) Involved in the division of Chinese territory...
Wrenn and pier won two of the first three sets by superior back court playing. In the fourth Chase and Read improved noticeably and tied the score by sharp and accurate playing...
...could be done except practicing the signals and improving the team play. One eleven was formed and the sixteen or eighteen men who were out took turns at playing. The men did not seem able to form any sort of interference, except when playing with the ends or tackles back of the line. The eleven as a whole did not follow the ball, leaving that part of the work almost entirely to the backs. Several times the men practiced forming to receive a kick - off, and interfering for the man who caught the ball. One thing very noticeable...
...Already, however, this has been so far forgotten that almost every afternoon the crowd encroaches on the playing space very nearly as freely as it did two or three years ago on Jarvis when there was no such fence. The men whose business it is to keep the spectators back where they belong have attempted to do so only in a half - hearted sort of way. The nuisance is not a great one but it does interfere with the practice of the 'varsity and should be stopped...