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...honored query, "What's in a name?" comes from the Middle West and informs us that as much as $100,000 dollars a year can be drawn from nothing more than a happy combination of letters. "Red" Grange, former sensation of mid-Western gridirons and the despair of ambitious backfield men, has found an unrivalled formula for living in opulence with an expenditure of nothing, in the way of effort, a year. Tired of supplying neighboring ice boxes with their heavy fuel, weary of dashing up and down mud covered gridirons, even, it seems, fatigued by the importunities...
...last few years football men have been going out for lacrosse in large numbers. This is especially true of backfield men and at present Ernest Gamache '27, and Madison Sayles '27, both University football stars last fall, as well as others are on the stickmen's squad...
Rumors to the effect that Frank Shaughnessy, Canadian Rugby coach who is instructing Crimson football candidates in the art of the lateral pass, would bring a McGill backfield well versed in the intricacies of lateral passing, down to Cambridge were spiked last night by a statement from Manager W. A. Magie '28. The Spring Recess at McGill does not begin until May 1, so the Canadians would not be able to leave the university until that date. Shaughnessy, however, takes his post as baseball scout for the Detroit Tigers on that date and will not be available...
...There is a tradition about sport in England", Henry went on to say, "which is not found in our highly organized and progressive system. There is a story which I think demonstrates the point I am trying to bring out about Pfann, Cornell's famous backfield man, who went to Oxford, where he took up Rugby. In Rugby there is much passing of the ball, but it is all done underhand and when Pfann and one of his former teant-mates introduced the overhand pass which is used in American football it proved to be a demoralizing innovation. In this...
Charles Chauncey Buell '23 has been appointed backfield coach on the University football coaching staff for next fall it was announced last night by W. J. Bingham '16 Director of Athletics...