Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Newton Keith Hartford '09, of Watertown, pitcher, prepared at Watertown High School, where he pitched on the baseball team for four years and played halfback on the football team for one year. This is his third year as pitcher for the University nine. He is 22 years old, 5 feet, 11 inches tall, and weighs 171 pounds...
Captain E. H. Coy '10 of the Yale football team has announced that Howard Jones of Excello, O., will be head-coach of the eleven for the coming fall. Jones will be assisted by H. M. Wheaton of Philadelphia, who was halfback on the 1908 eleven...
...Crowley, this year's efficient ends, will be again available. Brown, Harding and Houston are the other candidates for end. To fill the guard positions are Dunlap and West, who played against Yale, as well as good substitute and Freshman material to draw on. Smith, who played at right halfback this year, is a promising candidate for centre. He played a brilliant game in that position on his Freshman team, and is much better suited to it than to the backfield. Hadden, this year's substitute centre, is a good man, and plays an aggressive game...
...recovery of a punt that crossed the goal line. The Battery team excelled its opponents in line plunging and in end runs, and showed a superior knowledge of the new football, using the forward pass and onside kick to advantage. Inches at tackle and Nesmith at right halfback played the best game for the Battery; Barney at centre and Mackay at left half-back played well on the Cadet team, while both ends followed the ball perfectly...
...prepared at Hotchkiss School, where he played halfback. In his freshman year he captained his class football team, which defeated Harvard and Princeton, and also won his numerals in baseball and track. He won his "Y" in track last spring. For the past two years he has played fullback on the university football team, where he has distinguished himself by his wonderful punting and his unusual ability in line plunging. He is a player who is especially hard to down in the open field. It was practically through Coy's work alone that Yale was able to defeat Princeton this...