Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been cut up into three rooms for the use of the stenographers employed in the office, while the Bursar's office has been entirely remodelled, the old stairs and the brick partition having been taken out and the desks swung around so as to leave much more room behind. In the Law School a broad flight of stairs has been built to the basement for the convenience of the men using lockers. Upper Dane has been cut up into a large lecture room and four new laboratories for the use of Professor Munsterberg and the Psychological Department...
...open field where each action of the players, the captain and the coachers was in plain sight of everybody who cared to see it. Consequently there has been so far comparatively little adverse criticism of the methods employed. To a rather unusual extent the college has stood behind the team and the coachers; where men have been in doubt about the wisdom of certain plans, they have trusted to better judgment than their own to do the best thing; where moves have been made of which the students approved they have shown their approval most generously...
Yesterday's play brought out several changes in the makeups of the first and second elevens. Manahan was tried at tackle on the first, and Clarke, Beals and Wrightington, who did so well the day before, were all again given a chance behind the line. Gray and Corbett were played on the second, and Gould was placed at left tackle, Foster going to quarterback. The playing served as an object lesson in showing the importance of good interference. Gray and Corbett were never conspicuous, while Clarke, Dunlop, and Beale, who had the advantage of the superior team work...
...only one other period when Harvard's goal was threatened. The ball was well into Williams territory when Draper found a hole in the rush line and went tearing down the field. Hoag alone was between him and a touchdown, but he tackled well and Newell came up from behind at about the same instant...
Ninety-seven did not hold their opponents well, though there was some improvement in this respect in the last half. The entire eleven is light, particularly behind the line; and there is as yet no marked skill to counteract the evil effect of this lack of weight. The team play decidedly needs careful attention...