Word: halfback
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Thorpe, left halfback, is 20 years old, 5 feet 11 inches tall, and weighs 165 pounds...
...University football team will play the Brown eleven in the Stadium at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Brown has a strong, fast team, and although it was defeated last Saturday by two goals from the field, the rest of its schedule has been very successful. Mayhew, the left halfback and captain, is an exceptionally fast man. Last year Brown was defeated in a very close game by the score...
Fisher in the line, excelled for the Freshmen, forming good interference and dragging his man after him for long gains. Pierce at right halfback showed up will, both he and Wigglesworth running back punts for good gains in a broken field. At end, Smith was good on the offensive and in breaking up Andover's interference. Winston was slightly out-punted by Porter...
...length of the field for the second touchdown was the feature of the game. He was given good interference, but it was by dint of its own fast work that he was able to go through the whole Bates team and to outstrip Cobb, the quarterback. White at left halfback put up a hard, fast game and just after the second touchdown got clear on a tackle play and made a run of thirty-six yards before he was downed. The work of the quarterbacks of both teams was of a high order, and many long gains were made...
...second half Bates made long gains through the centre of the Harvard line. Cutler had trouble getting off his forward passes and worked only one with success during the game. Nourse and Crowley played well, and in the backfield Corbett and Smith were good ground gainers. Leslie at right halfback played well for his first game and should prove a valuable...