Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University eleven plays the Wesleyan team this afternoon. The following men will compose the team: Cumnock, Carpenter or Longstreth, Finlay, Cranston, Trafford or Dexter, Davis or Van Schaick, G. Harding or Crosby; Dean, quarter-back; Fitzhugh and Perry, half-backs; Sears, full-back...
Exeter.- Heffelfinger, Erskine, Beatty, Fierman (centre), Watson, Bordwell, Hill; Barber, quarter; Brooks, Morse (and Hammond), half-backs; Graves and Grouard, full-backs...
...rush line or into his opponent's arms. Neither of the half-backs got under the ball when it was kicked, but almost invariably waited for the bound, which is a wretchedly slow and uncertain way of playing, at best. The fact that the ball was slippery and the quarter-back passed too swiftly would excuse the backs for some fumbling, but certainly not for the bad work of yesterday. It is plain the team must "take a brace," and today is not too early to begin...
Harvard-Rushers, Hartridge, Long-streth, Tilton, Dexter, Howe, Blan-chard, Slocum; quarter-back, Crane; halfs, Allen, Perry; full-back, Palmer...
Andover-Rushers, Hunt, Mowry, Coxe, Speir, Upton, Townsend, Murchie; quarter-back, Onsley; halfs, C. A. Bliss, L. T. Bliss; full-back, Sprague...