Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Montreal in the Stadium, on Saturday, by the score of 8 to 2,--the same score by which the University team lost to McGill last year. The ice was in perfect condition, and the work of the University team was characterized by fast and accurate playing, the following back of the forwards especially surpassing that shown heretofore. The Canadians played an aggressive game, but their showing was not equal to that of last year's team, and at no time throughout the game was Harvard in danger of being defeated...
...forward pass, however, the first two changes would be useless, for the only open play then available would be the long kick or quarterback kick. As originator of the onside kick rule I may possibly be prejudiced; but it seems that it would be a grave mistake to go back to the rule allowing the back field men to let a ball bounce around on the ground and come to rest before they need to touch it. Moreover, it gives the line men something to do besides tackling and opening holes, and has a strong moral effect on the defense...
This brings us back to the now all-absorbing subject. Without going any further into the arguments against the recent Faculty vote, we wish to compare our present situation, merely as a matter of interest, with one that the undergraduates faced in the spring of 1884. At that time the Faculty passed a vote, among other things, forbidding the employment of professionals to coach any Harvard teams. This action caused the greatest feeling at the time. We do not wish to take up the merits of the question nor compare it with the present situation. It is sufficient...
During the past week the University team has shown some improvement in stick-work and general team-play, and the defense has proved consistently strong. The attack has been fast at times, but the forwards do not follow the puck back as well as they might...
...Superintendent's desk and are handed out on request and for a limited time. Unless the other books can be protected from depredation by the cultivation of an unmistakable and executive public opinion against a mean and selfish use of them, we may as well send the books all back to their places in the bookstack and confess that a reading room with open shelves is a failure...