Word: rankins
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BIJOU THEATRE. - Barlow, Wilson and Rankin's Minstrels...
BIJOU THEATRE. - Barlow, Wilson and Rankin's Minstrels...
...being clever, powerful and effective. '87 had the heavier rush line, and on the whole it broke through better; but this was more than counterbalanced by the superior running powers of some of the '86 men, and also by the fact that after the first fifteen minutes '86 played Rankin in the rush line, and dispensing with a full-back, thus gained one man over the juniors. The rush-line work was a good deal sharper and better than that of the Yale team when they played Technology this fall, and infinitely better than anything our university eleven of last...
...teams were made up as follows: '86, rushers, Burnett, Churchill, Vogel, Dewey. Harris, Woodbury, Adams; quarter-back, Kimball, (captain); half-backs. Fisk, Austin; full-back, Rankin. '87, rushers, Faulkner, Bowen, Burgess, Brooks. (captain) Keyes, Bartol, Fiske; quarter-back, Fletcher; half-backs, Peabody, Wiestling; full-back, Meeks. Referee, Mr. A. F. Holden...
...elevens were made up as follows: Eighty-six, rushers, Burnett, Churchill, Dewey, Vogel, Gilman, Woodbury, Adams; quarter-back, Kimball (capt.); half-backs, Austin, Fisk; full-back, Rankin. Eighty-nine, rushers, Morgan, Wardman, Trafford, Morse, Agassiz, Woodbury, (capt.), Perry, (Newell, Smith); quarter-back, Austin; halfbacks, Scott, Perkins; full-back, Hunneman. Referee, Mr. W. W. Willard...