Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...backs fumbled the ball often; this was very excusable, as the 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...
...contestant appeared for the quarter-mile run, E. Sturgis. He covered the distance without attempting to make fast time...
...except come out on the field in a leisurely manner, look round a little while, and then go in again, perfectly satisfied with themselves. They ought to play every afternoon from three to four, against themselves, and then a picked eleven or fifteen ought to play the university from quarter of five to five. Yale does not loaf in any such was as our freshmen are now doing, and the experience of past years ought to have shown that our only hope of beating the Yale freshmen is by working morning, noon and night. As it is, the present freshman...
...will not become so far triumphant that a large number of its devotees will ask to burden the very parent and nourisher of it, - Harvard herself - by using the grace of the college authorities as a means to create a nice little vacation, to be spent in some other quarter of the globe than Cambridge. It would seem hardly necessary to say that every undergraduate should consider it his duty to add zest to the coming reunion at least by being present - a reunion which is to represent the mind and power of the hosts of men who have been...
...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, and for some moments it looked as if the whole team had gone to pieces. The rush-line as a whole played a good game throughout, though their losing the ball at several critical points in the game, cost us several touchdowns...