Word: backfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PEACH BOWL: Clemson (8-3) vs. Baylor (7-4)--Baylor in a bowl game? Watch Clemson defensive end Jim Stuckey camp out in the Bears' backfield. Clemson 17, Baylor...
...times, the contest looked more like a football scrimmage than a basketball game. Repeated fast breaks left players breathless and the score unchanged, while long passes sailed into opposing team hands like backfield interceptions...
Faust, 44, a gravel-voiced six-footer, is second-generation football. His father, Gerard Sr., now 72, coached for 20 years in Dayton, where young Jerry was an all-state quarterback. After starring at the University of Dayton, Faust joined local Chaminade High as a backfield coach. Hired in 1960 by Moeller to start a freshman football team, Faust first fielded a varsity in 1963, and the Fighting Crusaders dynasty was born...
...leading candidate for a position in the Harvard backfield, Jellison remembers leaping for a pass, feeling his legs knocked from beneath him, and finally landing on his head. Not wanting to make something out of nothing, he left the field for only a minute. The next day the team learned that Jellison had fractured his skull...
Trailing 11-0 just one minute into the second half, J.V. Coach Loyal Park sent in the starting backfield for the first time. Quarterback Burke St. John wasted no time, hitting Jellison with a 35-yard pass. The swift Jellison then turned and sped 30 yards for the touchdown. Minutes later he took the ball on a sweep and scored again from the Harvard 40. The St. John to Jellison connection carried the younger smaller squad to a 22-11 victory...