Word: backfielder
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Head Coach Dick Harlow will give the first speech, and will be followed by Captain Franny Lee, blocking back George Heiden, backfield coach Al McCoy, and George Cavens, noted sports columnist of the Boston Traveler...
Although its ranks are riddled by hour exams, the House Football League managed to produce a couple of upsets yesterday afternoon, when Eliot's one man backfield. George Waters led the Elephants to a 14-6 victory over the Dunster Funsters, and, although Winthrop had officially forfeited the game, a team that was predominantly Puritans bowed to a lively Leverett squad...
...touchdowns, one with a cut-back that started as a run around his right end, and the other on a 60 yard return of a Dunster kickoff following a safety down the sidelines. The other two Eliot points were chalked up when a bad pass rolled through the Dunster backfield, already pushed back onto its own goal line on account of a holding penalty, and the whole Jumbo line broke through and smeared the Funster ball carrier...
...Army's backfield is light, the first one all season which will weigh about the same as Harvard's. Stahl, however, characterizes it as the best balanced quartet to face the Crimson this year. And a look at its personnel would tend to bear out his statement, for in the first team backfield, Army's new coach. Earl Blaik, can count on three triple threats...
...Army goes into left formation, the wingback, Hill, does the running, and he also can perform this play. And for fullback Blaik has another triple threat in the person of Hatch, a tailback last year, who is none the less a very adequate plunger. The fourth member of the backfield is Jarrell, who in build and proficiency somewhat resembles George Helden at the blocking post...