Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hayes, as usual, played a steady game behind the line. Once he dragged himself several yards with three men hanging...
...Dartmouth team had adopted the Yale rules, but a compromise was made. Dartmouth did not insist on having only three men behind the line when in possession of the ball-in other words, allowed more than three to participate in the interference from the moment the ball was shapped. Harvard, on the other hand, agreed to leave out of calculation the rule relating to fair catches. According to the Harvard rule, the one making a fair catch cannot run with the ball...
...second eleven took the ball again. Cozzens tried to make a run around the the end but was tackled behind the line by Moulton. Harrison tried to buck the center but failed. On the third play Shaw got the ball by breaking through...
...than Pilkigton and they bear about the same speed relation as do Cady and Hatch, who will be offered as their opponents by Yale. Cady, however, has been doing splendid work over the high sticks in practice, and in a recent trial finished only a yard and a half behind Chase, the American champion, in the record time of 153/5 seconds. Much depends upon the outcome of the two hurdle races as to how the balance of victory will swing. On record form as well as on present performances, the chances are somewhat in favor of Yale...
...regular fall practice began on Soldiers field last Monday afternoon when thirty-three candidates for the elven presented themselves. Since the new men have joined the squad daily that there are now about forty-five candidates for the team. On Tuesday the candidates for positions behind the line practiced in the morning while the line men came out in the afternoon. The same division was followed on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Saturday the men were all to practice together in the morning, but on account of the excessive heat they were sent on a run of three miles instead...