Word: backfield
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...characteristic Oregon plays, on which they have not yet the complete details. As the first eleven bucked the second team J. F. Brown '22 took C. A. Clark's place at right guard, and in place of Casey, who has a light cold, N. V. Nelson Occ. filled the backfield...
...line, there will be five veterans to form a backbone for the 1920 eleven, with Reinhardt, Walker, Acosta, Dickens and Captain Callahan returning. In the backfield, Kempton, Lay, Webb, Welles, Crane, Campbell, Aldrich and Murphy are planning to come back...
...comment on the selection of Casey the Post considers that he should be nearly unanimously chosen for a backfield position on the team. Continuing on this theme, the Post says: "Under the hottest kind of fire Casey broke through for Harvard and performed his appointed task. It was the mighty Eddie Casey who saved the Crimson from defeat. He is one man whose fame will outlast the fame of other 1919 All-American selections...
...most serious fault in Yale's performance was the lack of team work resulting from a lack of training in the fundamentals. Co-ordination between the backs and the ends was not sufficient to permit successful completion of forward passes. Co-ordination between the line and the backfield was not sufficient to provide interference for the rush-line plays; and finally co-ordination between the different backs was not sufficient to carry through the plays in a critical moment...
...line and the backfield will, in the case of Harvard, suffer equally, eight vacancies being left in each. Both of the regular ends, J. K. Desmond Occ., and P. D. Steele '20, and the guards, who have played all year, C. A. Clark, Jr., Occ. and T. S. Woods '20, leave College. Of the other four vacancies left in the rush-line, two are centres and two are ends...