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Wilson, Roberts, McTernen, and Watt comprise one backfield, and Boston, Oakes, Stuart, and Struck make up the other. Yesterday in practice each group ran for half the time behind the A team line, which is the same as started the Princeton game, with the exception of Allen in at guard for Charley Kessler, who will be out all week with his split hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARLOW WILL USE TWO BACKFIELDS IN TEAM A | 11/4/1936 | See Source »

...face of the mediocre season enjoyed be Coach Fritz Crisler's eleven thus far this confidence hardly seems justified. But a team which includes veterans Captain Montgomery, Charley Toil, Fred Ritter, George Stoess, and Steve Cullinan in the line and Ken Sandbach, Jack White, and Chick Kaufman in the backfield boasts enough potential power to run rough-shod over most of the stronger grid teams in the east...

Author: By Sturges Hedrick, | Title: Princeton Eleven, Faced With Letdown, Instead Is Brimming With Confidence | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

...Sandbach, E. K. '37 q.b. 22 180 6. Kaufman, C. E. '37 r.h.b. 23 181 5.11 White, J. H. '38 l.h.b. 21 177 5.10 Hill, D., Jr. '37 f.b. 21 185 6. Team average 22 188 6. Line average 22 190 6. Backfield average...

Author: By Sturges Hedrick, | Title: Princeton Eleven, Faced With Letdown, Instead Is Brimming With Confidence | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

...Daughters has been shifted back to end from the backfield, where his possibilities as a ball carrying back were being examined. Although he may be converted into a carrier next season, end coach Fesler felt that his squad could ill afford to loose any of its strength at this stage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSELL, JAMESON MAY START AGAINST TIGERS SATURDAY | 10/29/1936 | See Source »

...same football field for the first time since the season of 1924 when both were in Notre Dame's backfield, Coaches Elmer Layden of Notre Dame and Harry Stuhldreher of Wisconsin watched Notre Dame win the first game ever played between teams coached by onetime members of the famed "Four Horsemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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