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...following is the eleven which will play at Exeter today: Rushers, Holden, Piper, Wood, Morse, Markoe, Butler and Cumnock; quarter-back, Harding; half-backs, Porter and Saxe; full-back, Sears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/12/1887 | See Source »

...these improvements on the old Rugby game, by the reduction of the number of players from fifteen to eleven, and by the addition of many new features, the game is replete with points of scientific skill and "has become a miniature game of strategy.' The "rushers,' the 'quarter-back,' the 'half backs,' and the 'full-back'are described by pointing out the characteristics of the playing peculiar to each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American Game of Foot-Ball. | 10/7/1887 | See Source »

...when he does he will occupy his old position in the rush line. Woodruff, Gill and Carter are all crew men, and they make a trio in the foot-ball team that will make it exceedingly hot for opposing elevens. Harry Beecher is doing his old-time work as quarter-back. He is as quick as a cat and as strong as a moose. He is the captain of the team, and as such is well liked by all the men, from whom he bids fair to get the best work of which they are capable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's Foot-Ball Team. | 10/4/1887 | See Source »

Beecher, Yale, '88, the famous quarter-back, has now entirely recovered from his sickness and is attending to his duties at college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/7/1887 | See Source »

Beecher, Yale '88, the famous quarter-back, is sick at his home in Brooklyn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/16/1886 | See Source »

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