Word: center
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dana, '91, who has been elected captain of the Princeton nine for this year, is one of the best first basemen Princeton has ever had. In the spring of '86 he played first base for the first part of the season, and then center field, on the Exeter academy nine, which defeated Andover seven to six. He was one of the heaviest batters on the team. He passed his examinations for Princeton at the end of that year but did not enter college until the fall of '87. In the spring of '88 he was first baseman on the Princeton...
...announced authoritatively at New Haven that Corbin will be in college next year and will again play center on the eleven. Gill will return and play, and it is rumored than Woodruff will also return to college...
...Brice center Paine...
...when every foot counted Harvard lost fifteen yards for off-side play by the rushers. Harvard out-kicked Yale and Trafford's punting was one of the features of the game. Harvard made most of her gains by a series of short quick rushes around the ends, through the center, and between the tackles and the ends...
Yale tried to run her halfbacks through the center and she gained considerable ground in that way, but all the long runs with the exception of one by Wurtemburg and one by McClung were made by Gill. Yale scored her only touchdown by a cleverly worked trick. With the ball in Yale's possession on Harvard's twenty-yard line three downs were made in succession. On the third, all the Yale players bunched together in the centre and McClung was put in the middle as if to be pushed ahead by sheer force for the requisite gain. He acted...