Word: butterworth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...completeness and ease of the victory were surprising, but were clearly the result of superior playing. That Butterworth would outclass any Princeton fullback, there had been no question whatever; but it had been expected that Princeton's rush line would be strong and that her newly developed interference would be the means of making substantial gains. Both these expectations were disappointed. The Yale rushers found no great difficulty in breaking through their opponents' line whenever called upon to do so, while the Princeton backs were as a rule unable to gain at all by the aid of the interference...
...oppose the scrub team as the coaches have changed their policy and will not work the candidates as rigorously as they declared after the Harvard game that they would. The team took about an hour's drill in going through the signals. The surprise of the day was that Butterworth was out and in uniform. He resumed his old position as fullback and showed that he was in as good form as ever. The injury to his eye has been taken care of and he will surely play in the game against Princeton next Saturday...
Fairchild, f.b. f.b., Butterworth (Letton...
...game was remarkable for the number of casualities. Players on both sides were constantly disabled. Harvard had to go so far as to put substitutes of substitutes in some of the most important positions. C. Brewer, Wrightington and Hallowell for Harvard, and Murphy, Butterworth and Jerrems for Yale were the most unfortunate of the injured players...
...only points Harvard made which were counted were won by hard work, and just after Yale had scored her first points, Fairchild made an excellent try for a goal from the field. The ball hit the cross-bar and Butterworth caught it, and was thrown back of the goal by Waters, thus making a safety. This did not count, as Referee Boviard had thought it best to blow his whistle just before Butterworth fell. Thorne punted to the 35 yard line and, as Captain Hinkey happened to be in the way of the ball, it went to Harvard...