Word: backfielder
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...their names, and they're so identical in appearance and manner that they even have trouble-and this is a fact-telling themselves apart.* With one able to pick up where the other left off or both capable of carrying on together, these boys were really great football backfield men and deserved all the All-American mention which they received. From the Marquette registrar, I today learned that the Guepes are carrying their parallel into the classrooms with almost identical grades in identical courses. With only a semester left, Art has 23 grades...
...claim to the Pacific Coast Conference championship, roll up its biggest score in 34 games (40-10-0) against Washington State. First two touchdowns and the last were made by Sophomore Fullback Albert Cruver. One each went to Byron Haines and Jim Cain, spark-plugs of the Washington backfield since the season's start. Another touchdown rewarded one of the year's trickiest plays-a lateral from Nowogroski to Cain, who forwarded to Dick Johnson. Next day, after a secret poll to pick the West Coast representative for the Rose Bowl game on Jan. 1, Conference officials made...
Byron Haines, Washington's lefthanded, left-footed, drop-kicking halfback wears custom-made football shoes, and in them has become the best open-field runner on the Coast. Jim ("Sugar") Cain, campus representative for Beech Nut chewing gum, has played every position in Lhe backfield this season, functioned effectively in each. Washington has represented the West in the Rose Bowl twice before...
...second successive guard to captain the Crimson and the fourth lineman in a row. John H. Dean '34 was the last backfield man to pilot a Harvard team...
Junior lettermen are eligible for the post, and there are eight of these. From the backfield come Art Oakes, freshman captain, George Roberts, who called signals during most of the season, Bob Stuart and Verne Struck, both Yale game starters...