Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first events were the punting and passing. In the punting the men were judged for form, accuracy and distance, and in this Wrightington and Dunlop were easily the best, with Wrightington first. The quarterback passing was won by Davis, the others being neither as quick nor as sure as he; Davis, however, has had the advantage of playing with the centre rush all through the season while the others were used to different men. In the drop kicking the ball was passed back from the fifteen, twenty and twenty-five yard lines, every man having three trials at each distance...
This is the last week of spring practice. On Friday the season will end with the annual kicking and passing contest. Prizes will be awarded for punting, drop kicking, place kicking and quarterback work...
...Simpson 1 L., quarterback; R. L. Davis '98, quarterback; P. Burrage '99, tackle or end; G. W. Smith '99, tackle or end; H. W. Stowell '99, tackle; M. Esterbrook '99, tackle; R. Livermore, Hopkinson, halfback; G. G. Parry 2 L., halfback; S. Coffin '97, halfback; H. W. Finny '99, halfback; R. B. Stone '98, guard or tackle; K. S. Barnes, Cambridge Latin, guard or tackle; R. M. Whiting '97, guard or centre; E. L. Bryant 1 L., end; C. D. Huntington '99, halfback...
...Bachelor of Arts announces the following as being the make-up of the all American team of old football players: Lewis, centre; Heffelfinger and Riggs or Buell, guards; Waters and Newell, tackles; Osgood and Hinkey, ends; King, quarterback; Graves or Laurie Bliss and Knipe, halfbacks; Butterworth, fullback...
Casper Whitney in the current number of Harper's Weekly names the all American football eleven as follows; Brooke, University of Pennsylvania, fullback; Thorne, Yale (captain), and C. Brewer, Harvard, halfbacks; Wyck off, Cornell, quarterback; Bull, University of Pennsylvania, centre; Whatrton, University of Pennsylvania, and Riggs, Princeton, guards; Murphy, Yale, and Lea, Princeton, tackles; Gelbert, University of Pennsylvania, and Cabot, Harvard, ends. Substitutes: Woodruff, University of Pennsylvania, Beacham, Cornell, Chadwick, Yale, and Church, Princeton, in the line; Minds, University of Pennsylvania, King, West Point, Fincke, Yale, and Wrightington, Harvard, back of the line...