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Word: backfields (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corporation meets this morning at 9:30 and will consider the recommendation that the remaining two years of Jordan's contract be bought up, and he be replaced by his backfield coach, also here since...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Williams Seen as Likely Replacement for Jordan | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Williams, who is also golf coach here, is believed likely to be offered a one-year contract. Like Jordan, he graduated from the University of Pittsburgh. He was a back in the late twenties, and he has also served as backfield coach at Florida, Temple, and Pitt...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Williams Seen as Likely Replacement for Jordan | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

...order to make use of all his backs, Jordan unveiled this year an offense which he had first used at Amherst--the A-formation. This system uses the familiar unbalanced line to the right, with a T-formation backfield. One of the chief advantages of this attack seemed to be that it allowed the Crimson to shift quickly to its old single-wing style...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: Jordan's Crimson Elevens Compile 24-31-3 Record | 1/4/1957 | See Source »

...Just for kicks a pair of Pitt publicity men fed data on the upcoming game with Penn State into a mechanical brain-backfield speed, linemen's weight, comparative scores, even the years of tenure of each head coach. The "Type 650 Magnetic Drum Processing" machine digested the facts, hummed, clicked, calculated that each side of the equation could be evaluated by the figure 1. This, the P.R. men decided sadly, meant that the game would end in a tie. It did: Pitt 7, Penn State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

Also in the starting backfield of the Armenian team was Paul Abrahamian of Tufts, who played with Simourian on the Crimson freshman team three years ago. Seven of the starting team are from New England colleges, two from California, and two from Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simourian Named Captain Of Armenian All-American | 12/1/1956 | See Source »

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