Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...beginning of the six-minute scrimmage the second team kicked off, Osborne running the ball back 25 yards. With the ball on the first team's 40-yard line, Foster failed to gain and Lockwood made a poor forward pass, the second team securing the ball. After a few short gains, Taylor tried a drop kick for a goal which failed, Foster making a fair catch on the five-yard line. The second team, however, interfered with the catch, so the ball was advanced 15 yards toward their goal. Foster punted to the second's 45-yard line...
...HAVEN, CONN., Sept. 25, 1906. -- Twenty men reported for Yale football practice at the beginning of the season, but that number has been increased to about 40. The back field is fast and clever, but the material for the line is the poorest that has been available in years, all the candidates being very light...
...University crew won the eight oared race on account of superior endurance, and the ability of the men to keep well together throughout and follow a fast stroke in the spurt. Because of their lack of endurance the Yale crew could not back up their stroke, when he tried to quicken his pace in the last half-mile...
Behind the line there is more promising material. Captain Foster is the most reliable half-back, both in running with the ball and catching punts. C. E. Lincoln '08 was hurt last fall and was too light. He has thickened up considerably and must be reckoned within the coming season. P. C. Lockwood '07 was used as fullback only in an emergency. He is fast, however, and may be developed into a halfback, J. W. Wendell '08 will be available for halfback if he fails to give satisfaction at end. For fullback C. Appollonio '08, who was ineligible last year...
...Both crews rowed a slow stroke, except near their finish. The university four-oar went about two and a half miles in short stretches down stream, but returned in one stretch rowing hard. The freshman four-oar had an easy seven-mile row down stream to Cow Point, and back to the quarters...