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Cedric Janien will start at fullback, replacing Captain Johnny Dean; Chester Litman will start at right halfback and Danny Wells at left half. These backfield changes have to a large degree been caused by Coach Eddie Casey's desire to spare his regulars for the Yale game. Dean is not on the injured list, but he was bumped hard enough in the Army game to make it advisable to give him a rest if possible. He has seen action on every Saturday this season...
...Danowski, alternately carrying and passing the ball, crossed the line standing up. St. Mary's 13, Fordham 6. Systems, If Knute Rockne could return to earth, he might not recognize all the local variations which his system has acquired. His basic idea was to give a smart backfield, big or little, the advantage over a heavier team. (Average weight of the Horsemen was only 164-lb.). Most conspicuous features of his system are a hop-shifting backfield; deft, sidewise blocking in the line; the box forma tion of the backfield; the seven-man line on defense. On offense, almost...
Haley is secure in the quarterback post on the first-stringers and Prouty seems to have the call on the B club. Prouty has shown that he can pass and will help to make the second backfield a threat in the air. Sherman rates as the starting left halfback on Saturday, and Locke will probably be held in reserve for use late in the game...
Number 38--Arthur O. Choate, Jr. '34, rose to fame as a star end in the Holy Cross game last Saturday; noted for his ability to get into the opposing backfield...
Playing a team of individual stars, the Varsity soccer eleven defeated a graduate outfit, 4-2 yesterday afternoon on the Business School backfield. Coach John F. Carr, Jr. '28, was still experimenting with his forward line, but Richard S. Baxter '34, and Leon H. Manheimer '36 will probably start in the outside positions in the game against Amherst tomorrow afternoon...