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...teams were made up as follows: Harvard - Rushers, Harding, Faulkner, Butler, Smith; centre, Bartol, Mumford and Holden; quarter-back and captain, Fletcher; half-backs, Sears, Porter; full back, Boyden. Technology - Rushers, Vorce, Bartlett, Dame, Taintor; centre, Ladd, Tracy, Good-hue; quarter-back and captain, Herrick; half-backs, Wadsworth, Durfee; back, Duane. Mr. J. S. Fillmore was referee...
...rushes and tackling well. Porter played a strong game as half-back, and made several long rushes, but he was poorly backed up. In no respect, perhaps, is the contrast between a Yale, a Princeton eleven and a Harvard eleven more marked than in the manner in which the runner with the ball is protected and supported by other members of the team. Harvard must learn to do this if she wishes to be at any position except third in the foot-ball association. Fletcher's playing as quarter-back was noticeable, and the rushing and tackling of Holden...
...teams were composed as follows: Tufts, back, Chapman; half-backs, Gallatly (captain), Ames; quarter-back, Burrell; rushers, Raymond, Durkee, Shipman, Edgerly Burnham, Nelson, W. S. Cook. Harvard, half-backs, Perry, Porter, Willard; quarter back, Fletcher; rushers, Harding, Slocum, Trafford, Brooks, Woods, Butler, Holden...
...accessory attributes to a good foot-ball team are as nothing when compared to the one quality which has always been distinguished by its absence from our teams - skill. Our men play a good game after their own light; - that is, they let centre snap the ball to the quarter-back, and quarter-back throw it to a half-back, and then he puts his head down and rushes blindly into the crowd and - "Down! How much did we lose that time? Ten yards? Well, try it again." There is no use denying that our men play a plucky game...
...reports are true, young Beecher, the phenomenal quarter-back of the Yale foot-ball eleven, has had a very profitable season on the field. I am informed from very reliable authority that the boy's father promised him $25 apiece for every touch-down he would make during the season. The indulgent parent rejoices in his son's notoriety, which has cost him the sum of $400, as the youngster scored sixteen touch-downs. - Globe...