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Pressure of a growing cotton business has persuaded Nils V. Nelson '18, Varsity backfield coach for the past three years, to decide in favor of giving up football so that he may devote all of his time to commercial ventures...
Swede Nelson came to Harvard in the fall of 1931 when Casey took up the reins of Crimson football, but when Casey was the Freshman coach, Nelson has assisted him informally. He has worked with the backfield and had complete charge of blocking and tackling. William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics and Head Cocach Casey are now faced with the task of choosing a successor to Nelson and have already begun to confer on the proposition. Their decision will be announced sometime this winter but will probably not come until after the meeting of collegiate coaches during the Christmas...
...team, the line, will suffer most, with Schumann the only regular returning. Gulian, Littlefield, Brookings, and Casale are the other members of this year's squad who will be back in the line in 1934. At the ends there will be Shaun Kelly and Walter White, while the backfield's great losses in Johnny Dean and Danny Wells will be partly offset by Haley, Lane, Litman, Locke, Adzigian, Janien, Prouty and Moseley...
Hardest Choice is Backfield...
...this point the judges entered the hardest division of all and at the same time the situation simplified itself in short order. This department is the backfield. The choices leave the secondary with a decided military tinge. But the Army backfield seems to be about the best that has appeared here this fall and although Sebastian is relegated to the second team, his vicious blocking and sturdy line-bucking earn him equal honors with the first-stringer, Britt of the Crusaders. Britt had a punch through the line that caused Harvard plenty of trouble. The second backfield almost explains itself...