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...year and has won four games by rather large margins, winning from the Crimson Independents, a Graduate Schools quintet, 28 to 17, from Middlebury, 41 to 19, from Providence, 41 to 28, and from St. Michael's, 52 to 22. The leader of the Dartmouth quintet is McCall, star backfield man of this year's football eleven. He is an all-around player, filling either the guard or forward positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASKETBALL TEAM MEETS DARTMOUTH | 12/17/1931 | See Source »

Yale took the ball on her own three yard stripe. Parker kicked to Crickard on Harvard's 38-yard line. Wilbur of Yale smothered a buck by Sherry. On the next play a mix-up in backfield forced the ball to Harvard's 32-yard line. Then Wood kicked to Booth, who was downed in his tracks on Yale's 41-yard stripe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD 0, YALE 3 | 11/21/1931 | See Source »

...announced that he would start Captain Booth at left halfback instead of Lassiter, and Hillman Halcombe at center in place of Ben Betner. The rest of the lineup will be. Flygare and Barres, ends: Wilbur and Hall, tackles; Nichols and Rotan, guards: and Parker, Crowley, and Levering in the backfield with Booth

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRACTICE SEASON CLOSES AS DUMMY GOES UP IN SMOKE | 11/20/1931 | See Source »

Captain Booth, after practicing with the first team, went over to the second team and ran through a dummy scrimmage. In the second team backfield, with Booth, were Sullivan at quarter-back, Taylor at right Halfback, and Ingram at fullback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASEY DRILLS ELEVEN ON DOEFENSE AGAINST YALE | 11/18/1931 | See Source »

Like his confreres in the Northwestern backfield (Meenan, Potter, Olson, Rus-sell), big, blond Ernest ("Pugger") Rent-ner affects a nonchalance which some-times discourages Coach Dick Hanley. He lounges about the field at practice, bestirring himself less when he carries the ball than when he has a chance to perform a chore many footballers hate- blocking. After practice, he jumps a high wire fence at one end of the practice field at Evanston, a feat so precarious that Coach Hanley has considered making it impossible by topping the fence with barbed wire. On the field, his number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

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