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Another of last year's lettermen. George Ford reported for work, bolstering the backfield. Ford started at left half in the Princeton game last season. S. Mercer Moorman Jr. '39, a center, also was issued equipment, bringing the total...
...atmosphere of serious work prevailed from the start. No introductory talk was given, each man being sent to end-coach Was Fesler, lineman Ray Crowther, or backfield mentor Howard O'Dell immediately upon reporting. For the first part of the afternoon, emphasis was placed on brushing up fundamentals...
Four members of the Williams five played on last fall's football team, conceded one of the strongest small college elevens in the country. Ed Stanley and Pete Salsich guards, and Nick Helmes, center, were Varsity backs, while Mike Latvis, forward, was an end. Stanley was in the backfield of the second All-American eleven...
Neil Stahley, last fall's Freshman coach, and Howard Odell, former backfield coach at Pittsburgh, have been appointed field coach and backfield coach respectively on the Varsity football coaching staff for the 1936 season...
Odell, who will succeed Myron H. Plam, played as a halfback at the University of Pittsburgh during the three seasons preceding his gradation in 1934, during which time he excelled in punting and passing. For the last two years he has been a backfield coach under Jock Sutherland. As the type of offensive practiced at Pittsburgh has recently been much the same as that at Harvard, it is expected he will it in very well...