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Word: backed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opponents in line plunging and in end runs, and showed a superior knowledge of the new football, using the forward pass and onside kick to advantage. Inches at tackle and Nesmith at right halfback played the best game for the Battery; Barney at centre and Mackay at left half-back played well on the Cadet team, while both ends followed the ball perfectly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battery A Defeated Cadets, 11 to 0 | 11/27/1908 | See Source »

During the second half both teams punted frequently. Though the Battery team blocked a kick on the Cadets' 15-yard line they were unable to score. In the last few minutes of play Mackay ran a punt back 15 yards. The team then gained an additional 15 yards because of holding in the Battery line, putting the ball on the 30-yard line, where it was lost on downs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battery A Defeated Cadets, 11 to 0 | 11/27/1908 | See Source »

...Cate on a forward pass, advanced it to the 1-yard line. Hoffman scored on the next play, and Jones kicked the goal. Soon after the next kick-off the Sophomores received the ball on downs, but were unable to gain and kicked to Brooks who ran the ball back to the 10-yard line. Hoffman scored in two plays, but Jones failed to kick the goal. After receiving the kick-off, the Sophomores fumbled and the Seniors recovered the ball on the 15-yard line. The third touchdown was soon made by Hoffman, but the try for goal failed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1909 UPPERCLASS CHAMPIONS | 11/25/1908 | See Source »

...John S. Wise described his "Recollections of Fourteen Presidents" in the Living Room of the Union last evening. His anecdotes, reaching back to boyhood times, were of unusual interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Interesting Lecture by Mr. J. S. Wise | 11/25/1908 | See Source »

...September those men of experience and judgment have planned and labored to bring order and system into the work of preparation, all of which has been guided by the unerring judgment and skill of Mr. Haughton. The season was carried through exactly as he had planned it way back last summer. Nothing has been left untouched in developing the inexperienced material and his handling of the entire situation from the minutest detail up has been masterful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A GREAT VICTORY. | 11/23/1908 | See Source »

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