Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...present the worst criticism that can be brought on the play of Penn's eleven is that their work is impulsive and not regularly good. When it was absolutely necessary for the team to brace, then Brown could never gain an inch, and her runners were generally thrown backward; but this sort of play did not keep up as it should, and a few such moments of laxity might lose the game against Harvard. The same thing can be said of the offence. When the players really settled down to hard work and rushed at Brown's defence with...
...matter of the class fund, too, Ninety-five is reported as very remiss. Possibly the class do not realize how near to its close the college year is getting, but it is time for them to bestir themselves. To have been more backward in subscribing them any class in the past twenty years, is no enviable reputation...
...found in the weakness and inadequacy of our methods of education for the young. The effect of this weakness is to bring boys of fourteen or fifteen to the preparatory schools with very little actual knowledge, and with no systematic training at all. In the process of hurrying such backward scholars into college, it is no wonder, and but small blame to the instructors, that the immediate preparatory training is itself insufficient and unsatisfactory. It is therefore not only the age of the Harvard freshman, but too often his poor mental equipment which must be deplored...
...candidates for the freshman crew who started training seven weeks ago, about twenty-four remain. These men have been sorted into a first, second and third crew. The first crew has now begun to use the sliding seats, but the other two are more backward...
...high and thus fail to throw the runner. The interference is ineffective, it does not go hard and is broken up too easily. The backs are slow in getting started, and do not hit the line with much force. When they are tackled they allow themselves to be thrown backward for a loss. They catch poorly and do not kick with any precision. The ends are the strongest part of the team, though they are slow in getting down on the ball, and sometimes let the runner outside of them. The team as a whole shows too great a tendency...