Word: bolster
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...determined than themselves when they tried to pull another game out of the fire in the second half. It was a source of the keenest delight to the Harvard stands to see men substituted from time to time, one man here to score the field goal, another there to bolster up the defence, and still another to meet Yale at their own punting game and drive them back from the goal line. This is a feature of tactical football which has been conspicuously lacking in recent years...
Under this system there could be no unjust charges of favoritism, no difficult choices devolving upon the managers, and, best of all, no attempt to bolster up a competition for the sake of drawing out the comparative qualities of the candidates...