Word: backfielders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cocky, colorful, but competent Frank Reagan of Penn missed being a unanimous backfield choice by but one vote. The daredevil Quaker did not have much chance to show his wares in Cambridge, but even his brief appearance in the game impressed the Crimson squad...
Hovey Seymour of Yale and Bob Peters of Princeton were far back of both Hutchinson and Reagan for backfield berths, but managed to outdistance Loyo Rainwater of Penn and Art Frontezak of the Army, their two nearest pursuers...
...Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs than the Harvard backfield...
Three of the backfield performers and four of the linemen are Seniors; the other four first team choices are Juniors. Nick Drahos and Walt Matuszezak of Cornell, both Juniors, were outstanding in their respective positions, but elsewhere there was keen competition in a year which saw the Ivy League produce some real gridiron talent...
High-grade backfield men were numerous all over the circuit, but this year top mention belongs to Cornell's superb blocking quarterback, pathfinder Walt Matuszezak. He was the heart of Coach Snavely's attack, the answer to any coach's prayer. There were brilliant running backs to run through the gaping holes he manufactured in enemy lines, and chief among them was Whit Baker...