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Word: halfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman eleven which played at Andover on Saturday was weakened by the absence of the regular half backs, but this fact is not sufficient to explain the severe defeat which the team received at the hands of the Phillips Academy eleven. The work of the freshmen in comparison withthat of the academy team was painfully slow and loose. The tackling as a rule was execrable, the blocking was not systematic, and the tendency to fumble the ball was very discouraging. The play of the academy eleven was uniformly good; Hinkey and Gilbert on the ends of the rush line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andover, 34; Harvard '93, 7. | 11/4/1889 | See Source »

Play began at half-past three Andover having the ball, and the lively work of the Phillips team completely dazed the freshmen. Stone began the game with a rush of twenty yards; Cochrane carried the ball fifteen yards farther towards Harvard's goal; Bliss ran around the end to the five yard line, and on the next scrimmage Stone found a hole made for him and slipped across the line three minutes after play began. The try for a goal was a failure, but Colt dropped on the ball and secured a second touchdown. The play during the next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Andover, 34; Harvard '93, 7. | 11/4/1889 | See Source »

...championship game at the Berkeley oval Sa urday by a score of 94 to nothing. Wesleyan could do nothing whatever with Princeton's heavy rushers, who played a remarkably strong game. Dartmouth defeated Tech at Boston by a score of 42 to 6. At the end of the first half the score was only 12 to 6, but at that time some of Tech's best players were compelled to retire, and Dartmouth had it all her own way the second half. Lehigh beat Columbia at New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/4/1889 | See Source »

...Saxe half-backs Valentine

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Wins Her First Championship Game. | 11/4/1889 | See Source »

Fearing (Lee) half-backs Hulme

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Wins Her First Championship Game. | 11/4/1889 | See Source »

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