Word: moffatt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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TRENTON, N. J., Nov. 13, 1887.- Graduates of Princeton College residing in this city are very indiguant over the action of Referee Camp in ruling out Cowan from the Princeton team in the foot-ball game with the Harvards at Cambridge. Mass., yesterday. Ex-Captain Moffatt, of the Princetons and Hugh Oliphant, a graduate of the college, speak for their fellow graduates, and contend that Cowan is one of the fairest players who ever kicked a ball. He is undoubtedly the strongest man of the team, and his presence and playing always inspire the other players with vim and courage...
...remarkable for the accuracy of their drop kicks in a game; though Porter has once kicked a goal from the field. In spite of this pleasant reminiscence the fact still remains that we have no one in college who can kick as Watkinson of Yale can, or as Moffatt of Princeton, used to. Kicking goals from touchdowns is not our great point either, as yet; but that is an evil that time may remedy, and after all it is first necessary to get the touchdowns. The next game that our eleven plays is with Dartmouth, this coming Saturday...
...ready to do hard, careful work on the team. At Princeton the prospects for a strong team are very cheering, and there seems to be a good deal of confidence in the college that their representatives will give Yale a hard fight this year. There is a probability that Moffatt will play again this year, and there is, as at Yale, a large number of candidates for positions on the eleven. The foot-ball men here began work two or three weeks ago, and have been at it, rain or shine, every day since the term began. The University...
...graduate foot ball team plays Yale tomorrow. The team as made up for to-morrow's game consists of ten Yale graduates, and one Princeton graduate, Moffatt...
...Harvard's, G. C. Adams, '86. The teams : Harvard-Rushers, Hurd, Homans, Gilman, Winslow, Brooks, Phillips, Thayer, Simpkins ; quarter-back, Bemis ; half-backs, Kimball and Willard ; back, Peabody. Princeton-Rushers-H. Hodge, Irvine, Bird, (captain), Griffith, Harris, Wannamaker, Decamp ; Quarter-back, R. Hodge; half-backs, Baker, Toler, Lamar ; back, Moffatt...