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...rest, Bob Haley, Elley Jackson, and George Hedblom are reasonably sure choices to be behind the line when hostilities open. But the Sophomore light horse backfield combination of Tommy Bilodeau, Leo Ecker, Blackie Black- in some fine performances lately and the chances are that it will have plenty of service tomorrow. The Sophomores seem to like working together and their experience as a unit on the Freshman outfit a year ago gives them the cohesion of a veteran combine. The interesting thing will be to see if Casey will risk their comparative inexperience and let them operate as a unit...
...backfield, the same state of flux exists and nobody can tell whether Chet Litman or Freddy Moseley will get the call against the Tiger. As a matter of fact, judging from the Dartmouth game, the exact situations in the backfield mean very little, since Coach Casey may choose to run his plays from any of the four positions...
Sophomores again filled the major part of the backfield as Eddie Casey put the Varsity through its last scrimmage this week and started the work of practicing against Princeton plays, as staged by Messrs. J. Knox and J. V. Every man except Tom Husband was on the field...
...Harvard secondary. Phil Conti, the sophomore "mighty atom", Jack Kenny, who saw service as quarterback last year, and Johnny Handrahan, the hardy fullback who is capable of playing sixty minutes of football and has featured every game this season with his long runbacks of punts, complete the backfield...
Despite the loss of several key men Coach Blaik still has some fine replacements in the backfield. Norm Rand, another of the "forgotten men" of last season, will be a capable substitute at one half and Pop Nairne, who has been heralded as one of the best runners to be seen for some years at Dartmouth will fill the second string right half position. Bill Clark, who ran 52 yards to help the Big Green to tie the Crimson game in the closing minutes of the game last year is just at capable now as then and will...