Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...questionable ticket applications were filled in proper order and marked "hold," in which case the applicant will have to justify his right to the tickets. Any of the questionable tickets, which are not justified, will come back to the Athletic Association, and go towards filling the remaining applications in the order stated above. So far $75 has been lost in short postage...
...chief feature of the game was the constant kicking by both sides and the total absence of any fumbling in catching the punts. Vaughan and Kilpatrick, the Yale ends, were so effective at running down, that, except for Chrystie's 30-yard gain, the average running-back of the 24 punts received by the Princeton team was less than 5 yards. Yale's average was fully 9 yards. In line rushes Yale made first down 10 times to Princeton's twice. Princeton, however, was more ready to try the open game, and if she had not been kept...
Edmund Pike Graves, Jr., substitute back, prepared at Middlesex School where he played fullback for one year. He is 18 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, and weighs 151 pounds...
...University cross-country team will leave the Square this morning at 9.15 o'clock to take the 10 o'clock train from the Back Bay Station for New Haven. The team will run against Yale at 3.30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the third cross-country race held with Yale. This afternoon the squad will walk and ride over the Yale course. This course, which is six and three-quarters miles long, extends for about one mile through the fields, a mile over macadam road, another over stony wood road, two more over macadam, a sixth on a dirt causeway...
...scrimmage, after long absences, and showed their condition to be perfect. Minot and P. D. Smith were not used against the second team, for they were both still a little stiff as a result of Saturday's game. O'Flaherty started the scrimmage and his work in the back-field, especially catching punts, was decidedly improved. After the regular scrimmage was over, the two teams lined up on the second's 25-yard line and O'Flaherty kicked five pretty drop kicks. The line held well and each kick got away quickly and cleanly...