Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calculated risk. They knew it would take something special to stop the versatile multiple offense (TIME, Oct. 8) of Coach Duffy Daugherty's Michigan State powerhouse. Almost as if they had never heard of mousetrap blocks, Michigan's linemen wore themselves out firing into the State backfield. Ends slashed hard and fast at the ball carrier, linebackers gambled and charged headlong into offensive holes. For half the game the tactic worked. Until they put on one sustained 45-yd. drive late in the second quarter, the Spartans gained a total of only six yards on the ground. They...
...speed is not confined to the backfield, however. "The line will not be big," Coach James said before the season opened. "but it should have good speed and more depth than in recent seasons...
Last year Cornell downed the varsity football team 20 to 7, with all-Ivy quarterback Bill DeGraaf scoring every point for the Big Red. This year DeGraaf is gone, but Cornell still has perhaps the most formidable backfield the Crimson will encounter this season...
...chief offensive weapon of this backfield is its speed. Besides Boland, who ran the third leg on a record-tying American Championship 80-yard relay quartet at the Penn Relays last Spring, the Big Red boasts two of the fastest halfbacks in its history...
When it comes to reserves, however, Cornell is not so well set. Steve Miles, a highly-regarded linebacker and a strong runner, gives adequate strength at full-back, but at the other backfield positions the Big Red lacks depth. Behind Boland, Coach Lefty James has an untried sophomore in Tom Skypeck. Moreover, the Big Red lacks depth. Behind Boland, Coach Lefty James has an untried sophomore in Tom Skypeck. Moreover, the Big Red has less depth at the halfback slot than in recent years. Bob Hazzard, another sprinter, heads the list of sophomore candidates for this position...