Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Manning was a substitute on his freshman team, and last year he played back on '98. He learned his football at Andover. He weighs about 150 pounds, is a fair kicker and a good line breaker...
...Sweet Auburn," by Townsend Walsh '95; "The Sleeping Car," Willis Munro '95; "The Restoration of the Pipes," H. H. Chamberlin '95; "Little Sister," Louis How '95; "God, Man and the Devil," L. W. Mott '96; "On a Paris Omnibus," J. A. Gade '96, "The Law Breaker," by Phillip Richards '96, and "The Wrong Scent," A. C. Train '96. Perhaps no collection of stories has ever been published that so truly represents different phases and characteristics of college life, particularly of Harvard life. The book can not help prove interesting to every college...
Richards, substitute halfback, is a good line breaker, and follows his interference well. He weighs 150 pounds...
Brewer and Wrightington will not quite offset Butterworth and Thorne. Brewer is better and quicker on round the end plays and sharper in finding holes than Butterworth. He is not, however, the line breaker that Butterworth is, and he falls far below him in kicking. Taken all in all, he can not be considered the equal of the man who was last year, America's best back...
...rule that no man can begin a career on any athletic team till he has passed a physical examination by the proper authorities. In the article the writer says, "One would presume that before a young man was allowed to pursue the difficult and perilous occupation of a record breaker, the proper authorities would ascertain whether he was constituted for such trying and critical work." Then the writer gives an awful picture of "the best all-round athlete that ever graduated from the Heminway Gymnasium," who "fell dead on the Harvard campus from heart disease." We are informed...