Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three times as many yards. In the second half Harvard was greatly out-punted, but gained about two and a half times as much distance by rushing as Yale did. The chief reasons why McBride could not outkick Hallowell in the first half were that Sawin and Daly ran back his kicks for ten and fifteen yards and that Campbell tackled brilliantly under Hallowell's punts. Campbell played a perfect game and made up to a great extent for the absence of Hallowell in running down under kicks. Hallowell's kicks were long, as usual, but also erratic, and they...
Daly's work in the back-field was good and perhaps the best part of his game. The Yale team showed so much unexpected strength that his plan of attack required complete and constant changes some of which were open to slight criticism. Sawin was decidedly the best halfback in the game. He played in perfect accord with Daly, and clipped many yards off of McBride's punts by his clever, dodging runs. He made the longest gain of the day by a 33 yard run around Gibson in the first half. The end plays and double passes around...
Yale played a slow game. The ball was again passed back to McBride 20 yards in order to secure first down on 45-yard line...
George Albert Sawin '01, halfback, lives in Cambridge, where he prepared at the Cambridge Manual Training School. He has been a substitute on the 'Varsity for two years and has played every position back of the line this year. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds, and is 21 years...
...coaches of the Yale team this year have had the difficult task of developing an eleven from a mass of raw but promising material. The early development was slow but steady, and resulted in the victory over Wisconsin. The defeat by Columbia, however, threw the team back considerably, and it was only by the most commendable persistency of the coaches and with the enthusiastic support of the college that new life has been given to the team...