Word: half-backs
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Willard, '87, played half-back for the gentleman of Boston against the Phillips Academy eleven at Exeter last Saturday...
...foot-ball team are as nothing when compared to the one quality which has always been distinguished by its absence from our teams - skill. Our men play a good game after their own light; - that is, they let centre snap the ball to the quarter-back, and quarter-back throw it to a half-back, and then he puts his head down and rushes blindly into the crowd and - "Down! How much did we lose that time? Ten yards? Well, try it again." There is no use denying that our men play a plucky game. There has never been...
...especially admired by the ladies, took the ball and ran gracefully towards his opponents' goal. He had not gone far when a Harvard man gently laid his hand upon his shoulder and begged him to stop. Thereupon the sides lined up. The quarter-back passed the ball to the half-back, who kicked it with such ravishing grace that it excited the admiration of every spectator. In endeavoring to secure the ball, a Harvard man accidentally bumped into a Yale man, upon perceiving which the referee called time. Each man begged the other's pardon and was profuse...
...afternoon to have seen that one play. As no one had expected that the freshmen would score at all, there was great enthusiasm among the spectators. Unfortunately Scott injured himself and was forced to retire soon after, Smith being put on in the rush line and Perry going to half-back. Although this touchdown was directly behind the posts, no goal was kicked...
...playing was done by Burnett, Austin, Fisk, and Kimball. Burnett's playing being especially fine. For eighty-nine, the honors were carried off by Scott, Wardman, Perry and Austin. Wardman doing most of the work in the rush line during the first three-quarters, and Perry's tackling as half-back being one of the most wonderful exhibitions of skill that has been seen on Jarvis Field for a long time. Morgan played a good steady game till he got hurt. The score was 42 points to 4 in favor of eighty...