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...blew across the field, no better condition of weather could have been wished. Before the game the sophomores were generally expected to win, and were strongly backed by their friends. The styles of play of the two teams were in sharp contrast. '88 relied almost entirely upon her half-backs to play a rushing game, while eighty-seven trusted to the long kicks of her half-backs and the rushing of her quarter-back. Eighty-eight excelled in tackling, but eighty-seven was by far her superior in team play, and with her heavy rush line played a better blocking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '87-'88 Foot-Ball Game. | 11/17/1885 | See Source »

...worthy of special mention. '88 plays a good game, and with Holden on the team will possibly give '86 and '87 a hard tussle. The teams were made up as follows: '88, rushers, Bancroft, Stowell, Woodman, Churchill, Purdon, Hallowell, Crocker; quarter-back, Noble; half-backs, Porter and Palmer; full-back, Reynolds. '89, rushers, Morgan, Wardman, Agassiz, Morse, Trafford, Hunneman, Woodbury; quarter-back, Austin; half-backs. Scott and Perry; full-back, Perkins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/16/1885 | See Source »

...elevens were made up as follows: Eighty-six, rushers, Burnett, Churchill, Dewey, Vogel, Gilman, Woodbury, Adams; quarter-back, Kimball (capt.); half-backs, Austin, Fisk; full-back, Rankin. Eighty-nine, rushers, Morgan, Wardman, Trafford, Morse, Agassiz, Woodbury, (capt.), Perry, (Newell, Smith); quarter-back, Austin; halfbacks, Scott, Perkins; full-back, Hunneman. Referee, Mr. W. W. Willard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/11/1885 | See Source »

...Hall was played yesterday afternoon on Jarvis, at 2 p. m. The contesting elevens were the "Who-Does" and the "John Stuart Mills." The game resulted in a victory for the "John Stuart Mills. The victorious eleven was made up of rushers, Rogers, Woods, White, Hood, Cushing, Poppleton, Rich; quarter-back, Thayer; half-backs, A. C. Smith, G. W. Foster; back, Hamilton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/10/1885 | See Source »

...Look, Princeton, '84, was referee. Mr. Hull was umpire for Yale, and Adams, '86, for Harvard. The Yale team was as follows: Rushers, Robinson, '85, Bertron, '85, Flanders, '85, (Storrs, '85,) Peters, '86, Coxe, '87, ronalds, '86, Goodwin, '88; quarter-back, Bayne, '87; half-backs, Richards, '85, (captain), and Terry, '85; back, Marlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball- -48- -0. | 11/24/1884 | See Source »

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