Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvards: Rushers, Simpkins, Homans, Thayer, Phillips, Keith, Brooks, Hurd; quarterback, Bemis; halfbacks, Willard, Kimball; fullback, Peabody...
...Phillips played a steady, reliable game throughout. Kimball made several pretty runs and dodged very well, while Peabody tackled splendidly. The halfbacks were, however, lamentably weak in kicking, apparently using very little head word. The centre rush should snap the ball back without wasting so much time, and the quarterback should take in the situation better and know more surely what is the correct thing to do with the ball. If the rush line had not talked so much to the referee and to their opponents their play would have been better than any of their previous work this year...
Players: Exeter- rushers, Cook, Woodbury, Williams, Higgins, St. Clair, Cranson and Bass; quarterback, Wurtemburg; halfbacks, Harding and Moulton (Capt.); fullback, Morrison...
...Williams had the wind blowing from the west and Harvard the kick-off. The elevens lined up as follows: Harvard rushers, Finney, Phillips, Brooks, Homans (centre), Gilman, Thayer and Hurd, '88; quarter-back, Benis; halfbacks, Willard, Kimball; fullback, Peabody. Williams-rushers, Blackmer, Jones, Blackington, Corse, Field, Banks and Bidwell; quarterback, Winslow: halfbacks Safford and Wells; fullback, Taft...
...better. Wesleyan played a very rough game and took every unfair advantage that they could. Every one of their men was warned and one of the men was ordered off the field by the referee. Our team was as follows: rushers, Keith, Thayer, Gilman, Winslow, Brooks, Phillips and Simpkins; quarterback, Bemis; halfbacks, Kimball and Willard; fullback, Peabody. Mr. Terry of Yale acted acted as referee and Mr. O. S. Howard, '85, as the umpire for Harvard...