Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Father Field of Boston is doing a large and much needed mission work among the negroes on the back of Beacon Hill, and he has asked the St. Paul's Society for assistance. The society wishes the mission to be rather a college than a society work, though the management will necessarily be from the society, and so all men of all kinds in every class who feel any interest in mission work, or who are looking for a chance to do something for somebody besides themselves, are earnestly requested to help in this matter. Probably Father Field could find...
...play shown in practice yesterday was in marked contrast to the good game the eleven played on Saturday. The second eleven were about a match for the first and kept the 'varsity backs from making gains, whether around the ends, or through the center. During the first half hour the first eleven failed to score. Two or three times they got the ball down to the ten yard line, only to lose it on four downs. The great trouble with the backs was that they did not get started quickly enough and that, even when started, they ran listlessly. Brewer...
Individually considered, the 'varsity players were clean in their tackling, and quick in breaking through. The backs all ran well and interfered well, except that they were not severe enough. Corbett showed a slight tendency to run back, and once or twice was a little too quick in leaving his blockers, to run inside. Dunlop played unusually well. He runs well, and interferes well as a rule, though he has not played long enough always to take the right man, when blocking...
...depend very largely on the final outcome of her trouble with the other members of the Intercollegiate Association. If the undergraduate rule is voted down at some future meeting of the association Yale will have to abandon her ground. If she does this we shall probably see the teams back on the old basis, now in force at Harvard, of players from any department of the university governed by strict rules on eligibility. The time when all the teams shall be made up on a common standard will be looked for with great interest. In the mean time the matter...
...ELEVEN-All candidates for positions back of the line be on Norton's at 3.30 sharp. All others at 4 sharp...