Word: backfield
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...quarterback of the second team this fall, will all be available for quarterback next fall. The outstanding backs are W. H. Churchill '23, R. W. Fitts '23, M. Gratwick '22 and G. Owen '23, although V. Chapin '23 and F. Rouillard '23 will also be strong contenders for a backfield position. For ends, Coach Fisher will have J. Crocker '22, Captain Kane, C. C. Macomber '22 and E. G. Seldon '23 from the regulars, and E. P. Weatherhead '22 and S. P. Moorehead '22 from the second squad. The tackle positions will probably be filled by W. D. Hubbard...
Clark has a fast, accurate aggregation which defeated Brown University Wednesday by a score of 36-35. Their forwards are exceptionally fast and will give the Crimson backfield men a severe test. Their weakness in the game with the Brunonians lay in their continuous fouling. With R. W. Fitts '23 at center and A. E. McLeish '23 and T. C. McConnell '21 in the forward positions, the University has a powerful point-scoring trio while S. B. Chase '21 and W. V. Miller '23 are both dependable guards...
Last season, defeating all of its opponents, Georgia showed its strength, and one of the Atlanta papers is reported to have said that no team could score through the Georgia line unless it had an all-American backfield. In the nine games which the eleven played, it scored 210 points to its opponents' 17, and allowed only one opponent, the University of Alabama, to cross its goal line...
...first team he has modestly put seven Princeton men. Feeling that the Tiger backfield is the strongest in the country, he has installed all four regulars as a unit on his first selection. Three Harvard men are represented, and one Yale man has been awarded a place...
...Harvard excelled in the backfield and her runners were faster and more slippery. So strong and connected were the line assaults of the Crimson, that Yale was compelled to man its line of forward at all times with seven players, thereby protecting its backfield area with only four...