Word: backfielder
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...season will take place today when the University eleven meets Dean Academy at Franklin. The team has passed through a short period of introductory training, and, considering the material on hand, the result is satisfactory. In the two scrimmages of the past week the work of the backfield men, particularly F. C. Church '20 and A. Horween '20 has been especially prominent; in the line the work of the centre trio has featured. Coach Rollins stated last night that only straight football would be used, and that no attempt at an open game will be made. A squad...
...interest at Princeton seems to center now on the freshman squad. The eleven averages 165 pounds. The line averages 178 pounds, the backfield 157. The outlook on the whole appears to be the best in several years...
Those men who reported yesterday were drilled in fundamentals under the direction of G. D. Flynn '19. For a portion of the time a semblance of real football was introduced by a drill in simple formations by the backfield candidates...
...good football man plays well at the game of life. There are few shirkers among the line and backfield. There are no cowards. So very many have gone that only the barest semblance of a team may be organized. That speaks well for the value of football as a training...
...backfield, W. F. Robinson '18, quarter, is at Plattsburgh. E. L. Casey, '19, left halfback, is on a patrol boat in the United States Naval Reserve. T. C. Thacher, Jr., '18, right halfback, is at Plattsburgh. R. Horween '18, fullback, is doing patrol work with the U. S. Naval Reserves...