Word: ten
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...team made up of former Harvard players who are hereabouts at the present time. This team will probably be made up as follows: Cranston, centre; Finlay and J. Highlands, guards; Upton and Blanchard, tackles; Crosby and Hallowell, ends; Harding, quarterback; Lake and Porter, halfbacks; and B. Trafford, fullback. Two ten minute halves will be played...
...match A, open to all comers, the scores made out of a possible ten were: Pike, 9; Sargent, 9; Lee, 6; Byrd, 5; Lawton...
...Saturday. The second eleven were about a match for the first and kept the 'varsity backs from making gains, whether around the ends, or through the center. During the first half hour the first eleven failed to score. Two or three times they got the ball down to the ten yard line, only to lose it on four downs. The great trouble with the backs was that they did not get started quickly enough and that, even when started, they ran listlessly. Brewer showed no falling off, but both Waters and Gray were below their usual form. Gray was especially...
...freshman eleven are worse this year than they have been in the memory of any undergraduate. They started with good prospects, over sixty candidates appearing, but the number has now dwindled down to ten or twelve some days. The lack of interest shown by the class as a whole is something unprecedented. The coachers, T. E. Sherwin '94, and J. S. Wadsworth '95, have about concluded that there is no chance to make a good freshman eleven. The only consolation is that the freshmen now with the 'varsity squad will eventually play with their class team...
...trouble is not confined to the field work. There is the same irregularity of attendance which seems to dominate all the class football work this fall. One day twenty-five men will appear, and the next day only ten may be on hand. This is more dispiriting to a captain and a coacher than actual misplay when the men are out, for poor material is one step better than no material at all. It is marvellous with what equanimity a freshman team will persist in its childishness when all the football men in college are talking about it and frowning...