Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is no requirement for seven men in the line, but it is provided that if two linesmen are drawn back of the line they shall be outside of the line of scrimmage. Another safeguard against roughness is that imposing a distance penalty for laying hands on opponents before the ball is put into play. An important alteration also is that permitting to the side scored on the choice of kickoff. Other changes suggested are in defining the safety, allowing fifteen yards instead of ten on the kick-out after a kick for goal on the first down, permitting only...
Captain Goodrich of the crew took up the athletic phase of the question. There is need, he said, of some force which shall bring a united Harvard to back up the athletic teams. To do this, a genuine, whole souled Harvard spirit must be created in which there is no division of interests, but one united enthusiasm. The University Club is the force which better than any other can bring this about; for it would have the support of all students, and would be the centre of University activity...
...Boston Athletic Association will hold a handicap cross-country run, open to all amateurs, on Saturday, Jan. 29, at at 3.30 p. m. The course is about 7 1-2 miles in length, and extends from the B. A. A. club house to Boylston street, to the Back Bay Fens, past the Boyle O'Reilly statue to Beacon street, out Beacon to the Reservoir car station, right into the other side of Beacon street, and from there straight into Commonwealth avenue, the finish being on Exeter street at the club house. Prizes will be given to the first...
...will be a help to the University to have you come back to us with this loving testimony to the permanent influence of a true, pure, unassuming and manly life...
...talk about "favoritism," "indifference," and the other absurd explanations of Harvard's lack of success in intercollegiate contests is a mass of nonsense. The radical difficulty which lies back of the whole situation is that undergraduates are left to do as best they may without organized conservative advice from older heads. Harvard's competitors have today systems of permanent supervision, supplied by shrewd, mature men. Harvard has nothing of this beyond what is supplied by the scattering efforts of individuals...