Word: half-back
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...exact make up of their team could not be obtained, but it is known that Street, who made almost all Williams' gains against Harvard last year will play half-back again this year...
...Phillips, captain of the '86 Harvard nine, playing at second base. In 1883 and 1884 Andover won. In 1885 Exeter won, 9 to 1. Kelly, later of the Harvard Medical School, was captain and pitcher. W. D. Clark, Harvard '89, was third base, with S. B. Morison, the Yale half-back, on first, McClung, captain of the Yale eleven for next year, as catcher, and Cook, the big Princeton foot ball rusher in centre field. Noyes, who was captain of the Yale nine in '89, was short stop on the Andover team that year...
...next year, 1886, Exeter won again, 7 to 6, after a most exciting game. McClung was catcher again; as he was in all four years of his course at Exeter. Wurtenburg, later a Yale half-back, was short-stop, and Dana, now captain of the Princeton nine, was centre field...
...change. It used to be a dribbling individual game, and long brilliant runs were common. Most of the force of the eleven was put into the forwards, there being only one full-back, one half-back and one goal keeper. Lately the game has become much more scientific. The defence has been strengthened by the addition of one more full-back, and one, afterwards two, half-backs. The forwards have to play a co-operative game and individual playing is made entirely subordinate to team work...
...Adams. Half-back. T. Moore...