Word: linings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Preparatory to the line-up of the two elevens yesterday the backs devoted a great deal of time to goal kicking. The two elevens then lined up for a few minutes of sharp, hard work. Perkins and Bull, of last year's 'Varsity crew, came out for the first time, playing right and left half on the second squad respectively. Perkins tackled strongly, but was injured so early in the game that no opportunity was given of judging of his possibilities as a back. Bull also dove into the interference well but in his rushing showed a lack of experience...
Throughout the game, the backs played with a commendable amount of snap, though there still seemed to be the old fault of either starting a little ahead of the signals and thus making a change necessary, or of starting slowly. The weakness of the Brown line unquestionably covered up a good many slow starts. Dibblee played his usual star game, and by following his interference more closely, covered much ground on end plays. Sullivan made many good gains until he was injured and forced to leave the game. Aside from his deplorable failures at goal kicking, and his fumble...
Garrison ran the team with excellent judgement and backed up the line strongly on defensive play. He seems to be a shade better than Cochrane as he is quicker with the signals and gets into the interference better...
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