Word: half-back
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Yale defeated the Institute of Technology on Saturday by a score of 96 points to 0. Watkinson, the half-back, kicked thirteen goals...
...field and was rushed by Tufts down to their opponents goal. Peabody, however, soon started it back, and it was soon inside Tufts' 25-yard line again. Then came a fight of ten minutes, in which our men did the poorest playing of the game. Ames, the left half-back of the Tufts team runs low, and it is astonishing how the high tackling of our men showed itself when they attempted to stop him. During this ten minutes Ames went under half a dozen Harvard men; that is, if he had stood up straight, those half dozen would have...
...Yale News calls attention to the fact that two of the candidates for the position of half-back on the Harvard eleven are reported to have run 100 yards dash in 10 1-2 seconds...
...Harvard team was energetic and full of "snap," but the tackling was high and the rusher with the ball was not well backed up by the other members of the team. Harding played a brilliant game, making several fine rushes and tackling well. Porter played a strong game as half-back, and made several long rushes, but he was poorly backed up. In no respect, perhaps, is the contrast between a Yale, a Princeton eleven and a Harvard eleven more marked than in the manner in which the runner with the ball is protected and supported by other members...
Willard retired at the end of the first half, and Smith played in the rush line the second half. Harding played half-back. R. F. Fiske, '87 was referee...