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Puffer, Maher, and Stafford at quarter-back, composed the backfield. Substitutions were very frequent. Hitch and Dean played ends for a while, Taylor, Coady, and Nash tackles, C. H. Bradford and Laimbeer guards, and Adie center. McGlone, Braden, and Brown replaced three of the original backs, but Maher was kept in the whole time...
...Stagg Field, Chicago, there was carnage. All unwitting, a team from Indiana strayed in and fell prey to the fierce Chicago backfield, the potent Chicago line. When all was over, folk said Chicago is fiercer this year than any conference eleven-except Illinois. The score, which could have been worse: Chicago 23, Indiana...
...spite of the fact that Worcester Academy has one of the strongest schoolboy teams in the East. Coach Campbell seemed optimistic as to the result of the game last night. The Freshman team has been practicing hard during the week and has improved considerably especially in the backfield, which has been very weak. The interference has been strengthened, and a strong defense against forward passing has been established. The line, also, is much faster, and lately the guards and tackles have been opening up better holes for their backfield...
...Princeton beats Notre Dame, Coaches Fisher and Jones will be given a severe jolt. The Tigers are not rated as strong enough to stop the veteran Notre Dame backfield. Layden and his mates made Princeton look foolish last year and they are better than ever this season...
Boston University, Harvard's opponent next week, has a hard day ahead. The Army eleven with Wilson, former Penn State star in the backfield and the All- American Garbisch in the line is about five touchdowns better than the crippled Terriers...