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Without Cheek and Spalding, the first two quarterbacks. Coach Fisher must depend in the next few days on Stafford, Akers, and Zarakov to direct his three teams. Stafford, who excells as a ground gainer, will be used in place of Cheek when the so-called fourman backfield is desired. Akers, on the other hand, much resembles Spalding, as he has a light build and is a brainy signal caller...
Yesterday's practice went to the opposite extreme from Monday's violent scrimmage. Dummy practice and a long kicking workout made up the afternoon. Zarakov, Miller, and Hammond, with Stafford calling signals, started on the Team A backfield. Chase, Hoague, Bradford, Adie, Kilgour, Lindner, and La Farge made up the line...
...absence of so many of the regulars from the line-up yesterday, gave no clue as to what will be the main feature of the week's practice preparatory to the Holy Cross encounter. Whether Coach Fisher uses three or four offensive threats in the backfield, the question that is being most widely discussed by football enthusiasts, will probably depend on the condition of Gehrke, Spalding and Cheek on Saturday more than on the judgement of the coaching staff. The Holy Cross-B. U. game last week showed that the Worcester eleven's greatest asset lies in its backfield. Many...
...backfield the work of Cottle, Allen, Failing, Cutler, Lindley and Pond restored the optimism that the linesmen removed. Cottle had a terrific work-out against Georgia, and stood up under the test with extraordinary ability and results. Few people realize that Yale's touchdown was due almost entirely to his brilliant playing. It was not spectacular in that there were no length of the field runs but when one player can hit a line as heavy as Georgia's, carrying the ball himself in eleven out of thirteen plays, and in those plays, bringing the pigskin from...
...backfield has plenty of power but is rather sluggish...