Word: corbett
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Corbett, halfback, Hawes...
...feature of the game was the fine interference of the Harvard backs. Brewer, Stevenson, Emmons, Fairchild, Waters, and Corbett were in almost every end play. Sometimes the runner was only blocked by two, but oftener there were three or four to clear the way for him. Brewer and Stevenson were perhaps, if any discrimination is to be made, the most effective. Still it was the combined work of them all that brought about such happy results...
...running of the backs was brilliant, but they could never have done what they did without the aid of the fine interference. Waters made runs of 20, 30 and 45 yards; Corbett one of 50, and two of 60 each. It was not often that a back failed to make the distance in a single down. As a rule the halfbacks kept well with their blockers, but Corbett showed a strong tendency to break away and shift for himself. As it happened he was unusually successful in dodging his way out from the crowd, but he would never have been...
...Corbett, halfback, Hawes...
...following men must be at the Cary Building, dressed to play, at 2.30 sharp: C. Brewer, Hoag, Corbett, Dunlop, A. M. Beale, Fairchild, Gould, Foster, Emmons, H. W. Beal, Baldwin, Warren, Parker, Mackie, Laimbeer, Lewis, Grant, Newell, Johnson, Stevenson, Whittren, A. H. Brewer, Wrightington...