Word: backfielder
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...battle for the guard and backfield positions is especially spirited. Cliff Wilson, a burly convert from last year's A team blocking back appears assured of one of the guard posts. In signal drill Russ Allen has been holding down the other, while in the scrimmages, from which Allen will be withheld until about Monday, Bob Downes succeeds Allen. Close behind him is Jee Nee and pressing him is Chuck Klein...
...present the A backfield is composed of Chief Boston as quarterback, Vernon Struck fullback, and Art Oakes and Bob Stuart the halfbacks. Boston is a power on defense, a mauling blocking back, a spine crackling line bucker. Oakes' speciality is hurling passes. Stuart and Struck will alternate on most of the running, Stuart being perhaps the more clusive, Struck the better faker...
...Second Backfield...
...second backfield shows Fred Jerome as quarterback, Austy Harding and Frank Foley the halfbacks, and Ralph Pope fullback. Jerome is hardly inferior to the similarly built Boston while Pope has been cracking the line in the early scrimmages with sufficient brilliance to win Harlow's praise...
Offhand it seems impossible for a Sophomore to break into the starting backfield, even such an all-around athlete as Torbert McDonald who did most of the ball-lugging last year. There is, however, the possibility that cliff Wilson will be shifted from a bucking back with Chief Boston to a line post, and in that case there will be an opening for someone to spell Boston...