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With Joe Stancook and Jack Buckler in the Army backfield, the Cadets move in on Cambridge with a team that is reputed by experts to be even more powerful than the great Princeton eleven which humbled the Crimson a week...
...Brookings close behind him in the list of line men. Everything points to Schumann, for it would be pretty unusual to have a man in the "A" lineup two days before the game and then jerk him at the last minute. Furthermore, there seems little doubt about the backfield. Bilodeau, Ecker, Ford, and Blackwood appear to have the assignments...
...other doubtful sector, the backfield, conviction is growing stronger every day that Casey will start and all-Sophomore unit composed of Bilodeau, Ford, Ecker, and Blackwood. That combination worked out with the "A" line again yesterday, and everything points to it for opening honors. Little Bill Parquette, the possible alternate at left half and pass expert extraordinary, was given a full stretch of services yesterday but did not run through signals with the Sophomore combine
...Moseley has been the only consistent ground gainer and passer in the games so far, though all season he has been troubled by an injury, just as last year a broken ankle put him on the bench during the first few weeks of practice. His co-star in the backfield, the 187-pound Jackson, has been a bulwark of defense in every encounter of the season and lately has even taken over the role of a running back...
...Jackson is held out of the West Point clash, Eddie Casey will have to start a backfield that contains only Bob Haley from the trio of top-flight performers Harvard had expected to rely on. Chet Litman will probably take Moseleys' place at left half, with Fergie Locke going in at times to do his speed specialty. George Hedblom will probably continue as the No. 1 right half back, while the other Sophomores, Bilodeau, Ford, Blackwood, Ecker, Watt, and McTernan will fill in the gaps...