Word: full
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...substitutes of the team are A. D. Cochrane of New York city, full back; G. M. Ives of Rome, Italy, end; G. W. Mixter of New Haven, centre rush; C. W. Wallbridge of Brookline, Mass., centre rush...
Fairchild captained the team which lined up as follows: 1. e. Foster; 1. t. J. Shea; 1. g. Worden; c. Russell; r. g. Rice; r. t. Clark; r. e. A. Brewer; q. b. Fairchild; halves, Arnold and Hamlin; full back, Fennessy. At the outset the play was anything but encouraging. The men all played in a listless half-hearted way, until the coaches braced them up thoroughly. For the end of the season, however, there was too little snap, and a great ignorance of some of the points which should have been learned at the beginning of the year...
Butterworth full-backs Brewer
...Brewer for a kick. Off it went, curving and twisting through the air for 40 yards, and all the field watched Butterworth as he stood ready for the catch. A shout of joy went up from the Harvard stand when that ball came down, for it struck the Yale full-back fair on the chest and then bounced off again and fell into Hallowell's waiting arms. Harvard's ball again, and now at the centre of the field once more. Brewer was the first Harvard back to run with the ball, but Wallis was ready...
...Bliss who muffed it, and Lewis who fell on it. All through the game it was a noticeable feature of the play that every time Brewer kicked Lewis would go down the field as fast as Hallowell and Emmons, and more than once he helped to stop the Yale full-backs after a catch...