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...Yale offenses were obtained by extensive scouting since the start of the season. Wayne Johnson, graduate student and backfield star of the 1942 eleven, has seen most of the Eli games, while Lamar, Harry Jacunski, and Chief Boston have watched the Bulldogs perform off and on this fall...
...Finn's backfield companion, Freddy Kozak, is a slippery runner and rates as one of the best punters in these parts, and behind him are two or three more almost as good...
...backfield are some of the best runners to grace the Freshman ranks in a long time. John West, John White, Carl Bottenfield and Jim Lowell make up the first string but Ed Stearns, Phil Isenberg, Bob Diblasio and Dave Warden, to mention only a few, see almost as much action...
Four years ago, when rangy Bobby Layne and trim Doak Walker played in the same backfield at Dallas' Highland Park high school, they were inseparable cronies. Then Bobby went to Texas and Doak to Southern Methodist. Last week, each an All-America candidate on an unbeaten team, the two pals sailed into one another before a full house in Dallas' Cotton Bowl. It was the game the Southwest had waited for all season...
...grunting Gophers on Minnesota's line averaged 201 Ibs., outweighing Michigan's line 19 Ibs. per man. All afternoon they smashed into Michigan's pony backfield, frequently upsetting Crisler's delicately timed plays. Outrushed on the ground, Michigan could well be thankful for its prize specialist, 6 ft., 182 Ib. Halfback Bob Chappuis (rhymes with happy-us†). He is Crisler's triggerman. His job is to throw the forward passes, and there is no one in 1947 collegiate football who does it better. In the Minnesota game, it was his flat, sure...