Word: backfielder
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...more recent feuds, athletic authorities at Penn and Princeton suddenly remembered theirs last year, hastened to end it by scheduling a Penn v. Princeton game to open the next season for both. Because Princeton, with last year's near-championship team almost intact, and Penn, with a ponderous backfield called "The Four Tanks," were candidates for Eastern champions, it turned out to be the week's big game, drew a crowd...
...Penn's game until the middle of the last quarter when a sophomore back named Jack White, star of last year's freshman team, trotted into the Princeton backfield. He spurred it down the field in a yo-yd. march, carried the ball across the goal line, held it while Sandbach kicked the extra point that won, 7-to-6. Other major games...
Whatever may happen in the backfield, the forward line's changes are announced as definite. Kelly and Dubiel will once more be the ends and Jim Gaffney will start at left guard. Aside from those three the whole frontier will be changed...
...backfield George Hedblom is the sole survivor of the wholesale slaughter that has wiped out the greater part of Harlow's carefully constructed machine. He will again fill Bob Haley's old post at quarter...
With Moseley and Ziggy resting, the first-team backfield was a nondescript aggregation, quartered by George Hedblom in the bucking back position. Only one shift of importance was made when George Roberts, former Milton Academy quarterback, was boosted from the Jayvee squad to signal caller on the Varsity B team...