Word: backfielder
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...twelve laps, which is 1560 yards. McTiernan, Hamling, and Barr area three of the invading relay men. With Kane out of town, it is probable that the University's four runners will be Robb, Allen, Lundell, and Rogers. Miller will have a chance to compete with a fellow-backfield man when he goes to the mark in the 40-yard dash with Adam Walsh, captain of the great Notre Dame football team...
This will be the first time in more than a decade that a Crimson track team has run against Notre Dame. With some of Notre Dame's famous backfield stars entered in the race, the University team will face a severe task. Adam Walsh, captain of the Notre Dame football team last fall, and Elmer Layden, a halfback, are certain to be on the quartet. Walsh is the intercollegiate hurdle champion of Indiana while Layden holds the title for indoor sprints in the state. William Crowley, another football man may be in the team to face the University. He suffered...
...Cambridge, the newspaper reader is fairly safe in assuming that Harvard will either have a new head coach or not have one; that Mr. Fisher will either return or fail to; that Maj, Daly is not coming as head coach but will be merely the head coach of the backfield; that Harvard is (1) satisfied; (2) unsatisfied, or (3) dissatisfied with Mr. Fisher; that Messrs. Leary, Crowley and the immortal Mahan will or will not be among those present and accounted for, and that the sun will or will not set in crimson...
...came their sweaters, out they trotted, back to the bench came Notre Dame's second string backfield. Halfback Cuddeback of Stanford had scored a field goal. Fullback Nevers of Stanford had been shooting passes that gained and gained. Now the Four Horsemen* started their galloping. Now one, now the other, now the third and fourth, they ran, plunged, dodged, wriggled, twisted. Stuhldreher wrenched his ankle. Layden bored through for a touchdown. A few Stanford plays, a bulletlike pass by Nevers, and it was Layden again who leaped to the interception. The field streamed after him for 70 yards...
...second half went differently. There were new figures in the Trojan backfield -Le Febvre, squat and square; Newman, a Red Indian called "Chief." Now one, now the other of these two, shot into the scrimmage or off around an end. They scored a touchdown, two touchdowns; and a "1 minute later "Chief" Newman, doubling back deceptively, launched a long, high pass to Phythian, substitute Trojan end, who stumbled over for a third score as he caught the ball...