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...ball was soaked with rain, and coated with mud. Dartmouth's captain, Odlin, played well, but his team did not support him at all. The teams were as follows: Harvard. Rushers, Holden, Bancroft, Wood, Brooks, Woodman, Butler, Harding; quarter-back, Fletcher; half-backs, Sears and Porter; full back, Peabody. Dartmouth. Rushers, Hurd, Morgan, Eaton, Dartt, Norton, Blossom, Hagen; quarter-back, Odlin, (capt); half-backs, Artz, Bodwell; fullback, Kelley. Referee, Mr. F. A. Mason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Game in the Rain. | 11/1/1886 | See Source »

...knew how. The backs fumbled the ball far oftener than they held it, and the rushers were expert at getting the ball near the line only to give it into the hands of an opponent and see it kicked back to the middle of the field. The two halves of the game were in marked contrast with each other. The first was perhaps the best the team has yet played, the second, the most wretched. In the beginning of the second half the half-backs fumbled terribly and seemed to lose head entirely, the quarter-back passed wildly and poorly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 10/28/1886 | See Source »

Andover - Rushers, Shaw, Brainard, Hotchkiss, Aldrich, Knowlton, Hamilton and Perrin; quarter-back, Bancroft; half-backs, Dennison (captain), and L. Mowry; full back, Haskell; substitutes, Dilworth and W. Mowry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot-Ball. | 10/25/1886 | See Source »

Stevens played a very courageous game (with four substitutes against the Yale 'Varsity eleven complete save one), but without judgment or discipline; the quarter-back was very heedless - at least once he was not looking when the ball was snapped back to him; the most brilliant individual plays therefore, availed nothing for Stevens. The score was 54 to 0. The game was watched with keen interest by several intending adversaries of Yale. - N. Y. Evening Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 10/23/1886 | See Source »

...they appear to play with less snap and vigor than they did last year. The accidents to Hamlin and Bull of last year's eleven, are crippling the eleven seriously The following men played in the last game: rushers, Wallace, Gill, Pike, Corbin (centre), Woodruff, Carter, Corwin (captain); Beecher, quarter-back; Wurtenburg and Watkinson, half-backs; Pratt, back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Notes. | 10/21/1886 | See Source »

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