Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...than in blocking, and their tacking was low and hard. They were not quite so good in making holes and in blocking off the opposing rushers as the Yale rush line was, and occasionally one could see signs of inexperience, which were of course to be expected. Dudley as quarter-back played a first class game, keeping his head well, and passing carefully and straight while his work in the rush-line was something marvellous. He would get through and stop the half-backs before they got under way, while repeatedly he would pocket Beecher as he came through...
...well, it seems invidious to single out any one man for mention. But for Harvard, Holden and Dudley were perhaps the most noticeable; and for Yale, Beecher, Wallace, and Gill. The teams were made up as follows: Yale: rushers, Wallace, Gill, Carter (Buchanan), Corbin, Woodruff Burke, Corwin (capt.); quarter, Beecher; halves, Watkinson, Morrison; backs, Bull. Harvard: rushers, Adams, Remington, Burgess, Brooks (capt.), Wood, Butler, Harding; quarter, Dudley (Fletcher); halves, Porter, (Boyden), Holden (Sears); back, Peabody. Referee, Mr. Camp, Yale...
...sophomores sent the following eleven into the field yesterday to represent them: Rushers, Smith, Griffing, Markoe, Morse, Trafford, Perkins, Morgan; quarter-back, Woodbury; half-backs, Perry, Scott; full back, Hunneman. The freshmen had: Rushers, Crehore, Page, Slocum, Dexter, Piper, Wentworth, Emmons; quarterback, Crane; half-backs, Hunnewell and Tyson; back, Higginson...
Steelman, the quarter-back of the Wesleyan team, weighs only 104 pounds...
...McCosh knows, and knew when he accepted the invitation to be present at our quarter-millenium, that Harvard had become the exponent of liberality in religious and secular education; he knew that the experiment had proved a success, or at least, that it had proved an apparent success, both in the increased number of students and the increased wealth and influence of the college. He knew all this as well as any man in America; and of all men in America he was most opposed to, and most afraid of it. It was out of the question, therefore, that...