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...field as soggy as a silo floor the team of the University of Nebraska, popularly known as the Cornhuskers, made ducks of Drake, 21 to 0. Iowa, with a plunging backfield, beat Colorado Teachers' College...
Princeton, with a dozen lettermen back for practice, and a backfield of virtuosos, played a sloppy game against Amherst. Only heroic efforts by Prendergast and an 80-yard run by Parker made possible a 14 to 7 victory. The Amherst team went home to attend the funeral of Alfred Pimm, 1928, halfback who died of spinal injuries received in a practice game last week...
Displaying a fast, versatile backfield behind a hard-charging line, with the two parts functioning in machine-like style, Brown crushed a bewildered Lehigh team by 32 to 0. Randall was a terror to the Lehigh defense, tearing through big holes in the line to reap gain after gain. Edes, at quarterback, was effective in running back kick, taking the ball on the dead run, and attaining his full speed almost at once. The cooperation of the line and backfield was excellent, and the Erunonians give every promise of being hard to stop in later games...
Meadows is filling the end position left vacant by Gamache, and Robinson is again in the other wing position. Goodwin has replaced Kilgour at guard and E. Clark is in the backfield in place of Fench. The latter has had a recurrence of a boil, but although out as a starter may see service before the afternoon is over...
...behemoth of the Covenanters line, Flenihen, a smashing, never-saydie halfback who could pass with some degree of accuracy as well as run, and Schancheon, a heady all around quarterback. What the red jersied players did show on their first appearance, was clean handling of the ball in the backfield, plenty of willingness and snap in the execution of plays and a knowledge of the rudimentary facts of football. Flashes of genius and inspiration were conspicuous by their absence and will, unless the situation improves, again be among the elements missing in the Crimson plan of campaign...