Word: half-back
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...ball was placed in the middle of the field. A Wesleyan half-back found a hole in our rush line and got through to Porter, who downed him at once. The ball was kicked up the field and Peabody returned it. Butler getting the ball on a fumble by one of the backs. Porter made a run of nearly thirty yards, but was tackled in great shape, being caught below the hips. Fletcher gained ten yards and Faulkner made a plucky rush without gaining any ground, however. The big centre rusher, Wells, now stopped Brooks time and time again from...
Every Harvard man now made a rush, each one gaining a little, till the ball was carried down to within five yards of the goal line, when Wesleyan got the ball. The half-back to whom the ball was passed for a kick, muffed it, and before he could recover from his surprise, Butler had dropped on the ball, making a touch down. Peabody punted the ball out to Porter and another goal was kicked...
...through the rush line quick enough; and even when they do, they do not seem to know where to get to stop the opposing half-back from kicking the ball back. In the whole of the game against Andover, the Harvard rush line did not stop the halfbacks from kicking one single time after a down, a showing which, as they were playing against a lighter and weaker team, is very poor indeed. When our own half-backs kick the ball and the rush line can get down before the opposing half-back can catch the ball, they keep pretty...
Wurtenburg, the Yale half-back, was one of Exeter's best backs last year...
...over our rushers heads that the Stevens men had plenty of time to return it, giving our men a chance to fumble the ball, which they gladly accepted, and there might have been trouble if Butler had not dropped on the ball. On a muff by the Stevens half-back, Remington got the ball and carried it well down the field, and when they next lined up Fletcher carried it five yards further. Then there was some more first-class fumbling by the Harvard half-backs, and Harvard lost ground steadily, the Stevens half-back getting the ball once...