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...Gardella was discovered last year as a suitable successor to Vernon Struck at full-back. Harlow's deceptive offense depends on the spinner, and it is on this post that Dick and his backfield assistants Johnnie Wood and Struck will devote a lot of attention and worry. Sophomore Fred Spreyer, who is at present slated for the wingback berth, may quite possibly switch positions with Gardella. On Frazier Curtis falls the nearly impossible job of filling the combined shoes of Cliff Wilson and Chief Boston as blocking back. As leader of the interference and key man on the defense, this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PIGSKIN VETERANS SCARCE THIS YEAR | 9/1/1939 | See Source »

...probable Bellboy lineup is: ends, Hunter and Wenzel; tackles, Thurston and Pirnie; guards, Call and Taliaferro; center, Clark; quarterback, Gordon; halfbacks, Hame and Blotner; and full-back, Lyford...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell, Adams, Eliot Gridmen Play at New Haven Tomorrow in Wind-up Games | 11/17/1938 | See Source »

...college types, both real and imaginative, lend themselves to caricature. The Joe College freshman; the cross Dean, a perfect heavy in every case, the co-ed-heroine, usually portrayed as a sweet, delectible Dream Princess; the hard-boiled football coach, always a character builder; the towering Adonis who plays full-back and causes feminine hearts to flutter; and as for the absent-minded professor pick up any college comic magazine and you'll find plenty of jokes about...

Author: By Pred W. Pederson, | Title: The why of collegiate told by one who writes them | 5/1/1936 | See Source »

...prepared for Harvard at Exeter, was elected captain of next year's football team in December. In his Freshman year, he was a member of the football and hockey teams and vice-president of the class. This year he is a member of the track team as well as full-back on the football team, and a member of the Dunster House Committee. Whitney, who prepared at Groton, was substitute quarterback on this year's football team. Hayes prepared at Andover, and is a member of the Instrumental Clubs and associate hockey manager...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN, HAYES, AND WHITNEY ELECTED JUNIOR OFFICERS | 3/7/1933 | See Source »

...full-back and left tackle posts are the ones which are worrying Cannell at the present time. Wilkin and R. Morton, brother of William Morton, the two fullbacks, are both out with injuries, so that the job of backing up the line will probably be given to Hedges. Barber and Baldwin are the two ailing tackles and in case neither of them is in shape Haugan will get the call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEVEN FOCUSES ON BIG GREEN PLAYS, PASSING | 11/4/1931 | See Source »

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