Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...candidates for the University crew remained in Cambridge on Thanksgiving Day and rowed for about two hours in the morning. Two trial eights have been chosen and these will row a race over the class course in the Back Bay next Saturday. Upon the result of this race will depend, to a certain extent, the selection of the University crew. Silver medals will be given to the crew of the winning boat and bronze medals to the crew finishing second. These medals will bear some inscription signifying that its possessor has rowed in University trial eights...
Last Wednesday at Princeton the freshman elevens of Yale and Princeton met, and the latter won, 14 to 4. Princeton had a great advantage over Yale in the punting of Wheeler, the 'varsity back, and Hillebrand, Edwards, Poe and Booth of the 'varsity squad also played for Princeton. Sutphin and Durston of the Yale 'varsity played for Yale...
...general Harvard put up by far her best game of the season. The offence was dashing and effective and until the latter part of the game the defence was impregnable. Wrightington, as usual, was in every play. His work was invaluable both on the offensive and in backing up the line. The ends also, Cabot and Moulton, played brilliant football. In fact, Pennsylvania soon discovered that she could gain only through centre and directed all her efforts to that point. In this play Pennsylvania's star guards, Wharton and Woodruff, were especially effective when taken back into the interference. Most...
Neither side scored after that until the middle of the second half, when Livermore was forced back for a safety. Pennsylvania had advanced the ball steadily for 75 yards, when Woodruff fumbled, and it was Harvard's ball on her 3 yard line. Then, instead of trying a kick, Beale called for a double pass, and Livermore was forced back...
...last year's team will be missed this year, J. P. Parker '96 and J. E. Hoffman '96. But A. G. Thacher '97, the strongest member of the team is back again, and Austen Riggs '98, who made the best individual score in the Junior Championships, will probably fill one of the vacancies. Among the list of candidates are: A. B. Lapsley '99, L. Luquer '99, W. C. Gerrish '99, H. I. Bowker '98, J. Furness '98, B. R. Curtis '98, W. A. Talcott 1L., R. B. Baker '99, N. Perkins '98, and J. A. Gade...