Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is one exception-the goal from the field. It is often the case that the team reaches the opponents' ten-yard line, and is there stopped. Harvard did this several times this year. The pressed team is put on the defensive. Half-backs, quarter-back and sometimes full-back go up into the line. Four men are uncovered and prepared to get through or tackle. The team that has but ten yards to make suddenly finds it has not five yards in three "downs." Then is the time when kicking may win the game. Goals from the field, however...
...were the strongest and were used the most. Being larger and heavier men they ran through the end-and-tackle hole rather than around. They were not built for dodging, but for straight, strong running. It may be doubted whether the positions of the half-backs, so near the quarter as they were on all the teams this year, were advisable. Yale put her men further out than either of the others, but the tendency was to stand close in to the quarter-back and run out diagonally to the fair line. It largely depends on the nature...
...result of the year it is evident that foot-ball has taken a higher standing. It tends constantly towards hard, cool, individual play on the part of every man, the whole centered in the field captain or quarter-back. Princeton was not weaker than in previous years, but the others were stronger. Her eleven played their usual strong, well-practiced game, but the individual men with two or three exceptions were not equal to her opponents. Yale, as she always does, sent a team into the field with a dogged determination to win, and as always they played a magnificent...
...enter and again carry off the honors. Wright, L. S., winner of the mile walk last year is still in college, and if he will walk we have a very good chance of taking first place in that event, but otherwise our chances for this are small. In the quarter-mile run, we still have Wells, Miles, '88 and Mandell, '89. In the half-mile we have Cogswell, '88, who can run it in very fast time, also Davenport, '90, Miles, '88, Dana, '88 and perhaps Mandell, '89. In the 100 and 220-yards dash Miles, '88, Lund, '88, Mandell...
...Myers secured his first victory in a handicap race since his arrival in Australia at Sydney, on Oct. 29. He won the first heat by four yards, and in the final he defeated Cassimer quite easily by half a dozen yards, his time for the distance, a quarter of a mile, being 49 secs...