Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contests with Northeastern have been mismatches in recent years. An unusually strong Crimson backfield and an alert defense put the game out of the Huskies' reach after little more than ten minutes of playing time...
...three Crimson teams work out together each afternoon, so it was not surprising that all three suffered the same effects from lack of practice-decreased stamina and absence of precision in the backfield...
...team, after stopping several deep Holy Cross penetrations in the first half, ran up a 6-0 lead midway through the second, then watched it vanish through two blocked kicks and an intercepted backfield pass...
Harvard's backfield is small, but extremely elusive and hard-running. The Brown Daily Herald, however, proclaims the Bruin backs as the best in the East, and the claim may have some validity. Unless the Crimson can integrate its timing in practice, and if the scrum has similar problems with pursuit, it could lose again...
Yale coach Carmen Cozza had nothing but praise for Hill. "I'd like to see him in the same backfield with O.J. Simpson and Leroy Keyes-he wouldn't be embarrassed." Cozza said. Dartmouth's Bob Blackman said. "He must be regarded as the most dangerous back in the history of the Ivy League...