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...Players. Professional football players' salaries scale down from $10,000 per season to an average of about $1,500. A few famed college players have, as professionals, justified their amateur reputations. Illinois' Red Grange has been in the Chicago backfield for eight years. Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski has been the outstanding fullback of the League for the past five years. N. Y. U.'s Ken Strong is a Giant regular as is Michigan's Harry Newman. In his first season as a professional, Tennessee's Beattie Feathers has made an unprecedented record by gaining over...
...hole-filled wall where the defense should have held the fort. The defense has certainly proved the stronger of the two in the games so far, but plenty of criticism could be applied to the number of Dartmouth, Princeton, and Army men who have been getting into the Crimson backfield at the snap of the ball...
...backfield the same thing is happening as such veterans as Chet Litman and Fergie Locke are being pushed into the background by Johnny Adzigian, Braman Gibbs, and a host of Sophomores. Elley Jackson, Freddy Moseley, and Bob Haley are three old-timers who are sure of jobs if no injuries intervene between now and November 24, but Moseley will probably not be used for the full 60 minutes even if his physical condition warrants it, and that, with the now unoccupied right half back position, leaves two places to be filled for a time at least by such promising material...
Line Coach Adam Walsh has caught the attention of the public with his work in constructing a line which has held in check some of the most formidable teams in the country, but the same is not true of the pass defense of the backfield. If the Army opens up with its aerial attack in the game today, an indication will be given of the success of Coach Casey's intensive work in this department...
Harvard is taking a chance on its Sophomore backfield, composed of Tommy Bilodeau, George Ford, George Blackwood and Leo Ecker, to handle the assignments in the game today. This youngster secondary has proved itself adequate on the defense, when it fought like a wildeat to hold back the Orange last week. Not until exhaustion wreaked havoe on this youthful quartet, did the Tiger find the going to his satisfaction