Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tackling the dummy. The 'Varsity then lined up with the second eleven for ten minutes. The playing was loose, though fast, the most noticeable fact being a decided falling off in form, on the part of the second. Brown played his poorest game of the season. At full-back, he muffed punts continually, once allowing the 'Varsity to regain the ball on two successive kicks, which brought it from the centre of the field to the 5-yard line. It was virtually through their kicking and Brown's poor work that the 'Varsity succeeded in pushing the ball over...
Yesterday afternoon the Cycling Association held its first club run of the season, riding out to the Chestnut Hill Reservoir and back. Only a few men came out and more are needed if the runs are to be a success...
...rate, when the committee next meets it should be made to feel that the undergraduates and other resident members of the University are back of it, and that they are not only thoroughly interested, but anxious to participate actively in the work of founding the club...
...illustrates a real phase of Freshman life and some of the other sketches are creditable. Perhaps the most successful attempt is a take-off on the poetry of Kipling and his admirers. Several stray hits are scattered throughout the number and a wandering member of the University is welcomed back and his exploits rehearsed in a manner truly dazzling and wonderful, but scarcely appreciable by the college at large...
...developing a new play to take the place of the old style drop kick. The centre snaps the ball back to a player standing about eight yards behind the line. He holds it firmly on the ground and the full back makes an attempt at goal before the opposing rushers can get through and block the ball...