Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vagabond has his moments when life is very much on the high road. For a man whose pleasures at this season are rather confined within academic bounds such attractions as today's lectures change the face of dull routine and, as they sometimes say of football, put more fun back into the game of vagabonding...
...straw on the floor of a horse car later still in electric street cars they made the trip from Marleave's Cafe in twenty five minutes and now they drop into the subway and are rushed under the river get a drink at a Boston blind pig and are back for their next class. After a couple of centuries of carrying water to the washbowls or splashing themselves at the college pump they have come by the luxury of individual bathrooms and running hot and cold water...
...Arnold Horween as head coach of the 1930 Harvard football team is no surprise to followers of Crimson gridiron fortunes. At the time of the Yale game it is rumored, Horween told the players with whom he had been working during the arduous 1929 campaign that he would come back for another season and even those less intimately connected with the mentor whole heartedly expected his return next fall. Mr. Bingham's announcement was received with thunderous applause by the Harvard players and will be equally well received by University undergraduates and graduates alike...
During his Freshman year Ticknor was captain and fullback of his first year eleven. Coach Horween switched him to the pivot post however where for two years he has excelled playing along side his brother. It is this back field experience gained at Milton and under Eddie Casey former Freshman coach and now in charge of the backs which has made him such a keen defensive player...
...Ticknor's career which bears witness to his coolness under fire came in this last Yale game. With one arm practically useless as the result of his bruising tackling he walked to the sidelines and asked for a substitute at center as he was unable to snap the ball back. Gildea went to center while the rangy Ticknor continued his stellar work at a guard post...