Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...HAVEN, Sept. 21, 1895. The Yale squad has had four days of preliminary training. Captain Thorne appeared here last Tuesday, and within the next two days 10 candidates for places behind the line had reported for work. On Thursday the linemen began to come and now there are 20 here. The candidates include the few men left from last year's team, most of the members of last year's freshman eleven, but no new men. They will not be given a chance till after college opens next week Thursday...
...years' experience, are the old men who return, one of them a lineman, the other a back. Murphy, as tackle, will be relied upon by Captain Thorne to keep the line steady this year, while as fullback Captain Thorne himself will do his best to steady the men behind the line...
There was no summer practice of the football squad this year. Captain Bewer, however, invited the most promising candidates for positions behind the line to spend a week with him at his summer home near Marion, Mass., and later on he also invited the candidates for line positions to play him a similar visit...
Scannell's work behind the bat was excellent. In the fourth he made a fine catch of a high foul. His three-bagger in the first inning brought in Harvard's first...
...prophet felt and had a right to feel that an appeal to the past would rouse in them the noblest ambitions. 'Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn,' is his cry, 'and unto Abraham your father.' Such an appeal is the privilege of those nations that have behind them a long and noble history. Other peoples have their sources of inspiration, new countries have the great stimulus of youth. But this is one of the privileges of honorable years...