Word: backed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University football team will have the Square for Annapolis at 7.15 o'clock this evening. They will take the Federal Express from the Back Bay station at 8.04, arriving in Baltimore at 8.40 o'clock Friday morning and break-fasting at the Hotel Belvidere. Friday will be spent at the Baltimore Country Club's grounds, where a short signal practice will be held in the afternoon. The team will return to the Belvidere for the night and will leave for Annapolis at 10.15 Saturday morning...
...more tackles and Kennard was selected as a promising man to develop on account of his weight and his hard fighting qualities. Coach Cutts intends to give Nourse a try-out at tackle shortly. The other change was the shifting of Blumer from end on the second to full-back on the University eleven. There is a great scarcity of full-backs at present with Brennan out of the game for three weeks with a torn ligament, Mason temporarily laid-up and Wendell unable to play, and the coaches picked out Blumer as a likely man to test...
...score of 11 to 0. The second team was kept on the defensive most of the time, but once in the second half reached Exeter's 15-yard line, where the ball was lost on downs. The feature of the game was the playing of Lewis, who ran back a kick-off 40 yards and later ran 35 yards for a touchdown after intercepting a forward pass...
Last week the University crew squad practiced every day, except Saturday. On Monday the crews paddled up to the Brighton Bridge and back. On Tuesday, owing to the wind, the crews did not go out on the river, but the whole squad received instruction on the machines from Coach Wray and Captain Richardson. Wednesday the eight rowed into the basin below Harvard Bridge. Thursday they paddled up to Brighton again, and on Friday had another long row in the basin...
...features of the practice were the punting and rushing of Coy, and a 100-yard run by Philbin of the scrub team. In general there was poor work with the forward pass. Many old players are back to assist in coaching the team. A hard game is expected with Holy Cross tomorrow...