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Yale defeated the Wesleyan team by a score of 66 to 0. The greater part of the points were made by kicks of Richard, the half-back. Coxe, the young giant, who played last year on the freshmen team, played Saturday with the University eleven and distinguished himself by his good work. Ferry also did finely...
Cowling, the half-back of the freshman eleven is trying for the position of anchor on the '87 tug-of-war team...
Turf, Field and Farm says that in Henry, Harvard has the best half-back ever seen in New York...
...second three-quarters our men started out with a very strong game, the rushers passed and tackled well, and the half-backs seemed to have got over all nervousness, meeting Yale with run for run and kich for kich, gaining at every turn. Suddenly, however, Yale changed her tacties and Terry was off with the ball, rushing almost to our ten yard line. In the confusion that followed, Hyndman secured the ball and slid over the linc, making a touchdown for Yale, from which Terry kicked the second goal. This made Harvard more careful, and she played a steadier game...
...Harvard, Kendall and Bonsal rushed very well and Codman's tackling was almost perfect, while Henry's half-back play was universally acknowledged as the best work of the day. Time and again be saved us from worse defeat, and the touchdown was largely due to his remarkable kicking. The game throughout was the fairest ever played with Yale, and were it not for the deliberate fouling the Yale rushers showed in their tackling of Henry their playing seemed very straightforward...