Word: backfielder
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...There is hardly any need to comment on the Harvard backfield. Obviously you possess several brilliant runners and defense players composing a well balanced group. If Harvard continues to turn out the performance which it gave against us today I think it will cause a lot of worry this fall to any team in the East...
...Colgate, the manager of the team figured out that it cost $110.05 to equip each member of a squad of 50 ... Columbia, planning to "resume athletic relations" with Dartmouth, was trying to build a backfield around a lone veteran called Kumpf . . . Dartmouth would have last year's stars, Captain Black and Alton Marsters . . . Roper of Princeton, who is at his best with raw beef, had a squad with many lettermen . . . three Harvard backs were severely injured in practice . . Captain Donn Greenshields of Penn State was in bed, recovering from pneumonia . . . Knute Rockne, famed Notre Dame coach and journalist...
...this point a backfield composed of Greeley, Batchelder, Mason, and G. L. Graves '31 was put behind the scrub line and Sumner Putnam '31, Holbrook, T. G. Moore '29, and A. W. Huguley '31 going in for the first team. The ball was given to the University eleven on the scrub 15-yard line, and on the second play Putnam ran thirteen yards for a score. The pigskin was brought out and this time placed on the scrub 20-yard line. After Huguley had made a few yards on three line bucks. Holbrook circled the left wing for the last...
University Coach Madison Sayles '27 is coaching the backfield of the football team and consequently will not be able to give much time to Lacrosse until next spring. Practice this fall will be held regularly, however, under Coach Lane. A five game schedule will be arranged, if enough interest is aroused...
...rest of the backfield squad is made up of F. S. Grant Jr. '29, G. L. Graves '31, A. W. Huguley '31, G. C. Holbrook '30, and T. G. Moore '29, all capable and mostly experienced material Graves has been doing particularly well so far this fall. He is a short stocky back with plenty of speed and fight, the type that makes a yard or so after he has been hit from all sides. He needs experience but otherwise should make trouble for opposing linemen this fall. Holbrook was among the most promising of last year's new material...