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With the score tied, 6-to-6 in the third quarter. Brown's Center Payne sent a pass that went over the heads of the backfield, rolled to his 11-yd. line where a Brown man accidentally kicked it. Awarded possession of the ball, Harvard promptly punched over the winning touchdown...
...Arbor, a crowd of 65.000 watched Michigan, unbeaten and untied since 1931, outplayed by Minnesota, whose Pug Lund gained more ground than the whole Michigan backfield put together but failed to get within scoring range until five minutes before the game ended. Then, on fourth down at Michigan's 24-yd. line, Minnesota's Bill Bevan missed the place-kick that would have broken...
With the loss of Dean, Wells, Kopans and many others of their calibre, including the entire center squad, Coach Casey faces a trying task next fall. In spite of all the losses the backfield will be perhaps the least hard hit by graduation. Locke, Litman, Lane, Haley et al, will be back in full force next year. But the line situation is much more troubling. Three first string tackles, Kopans, Francisco and Rogers will be gone. To fill their places Casey has Burton and those coming up from the Freshman eleven. Even the brilliant Jayvee tackles, who looked good enough...
Locke continued to alternate with Wells at the left half position but Wells is definitely set to start the game. His running mates in the first backfield will be Litman at right half, Haley at quarter and Dean at full...
...consistently throughout the season, still hold sway in the tackle niches and work outside of Schumann and Gundlach at the guard berths. Casey dominates the pivot situation and will have as a reserve Johnny Lockwood. With the exception of the return of Locke as an alternate on the first backfield, the secondary remains the same, with Haley at quarter, Wells at left half, Litman at right half, and Dean at fullback. Locke has been shifted back to the running back position after having his fling at the right half post. Wells, however, is practically certain of being called...