Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compensate for his crumbling protection, Whittier has been forced to abandon his accustomed game plan. As he scrambles around in his own backfield, he's had to make some hasty improvisations in his offensive stance. And as each play brings the eager tacklers closer, Whittier digs deeper and deeper into his bag of trick plays in an attempt to elude the pursuit. But Whittier, as crafty a veteran as he is, is running out of tricks...
Nahigian, who led Providence to the NCAA Division I baseball finals last weekend before the Friars lost out to Harvard, will handle the Crimson linebackers. The defensive backfield will be Nahigian's secondary concern...
Coach Joe Restic said yesterday, "I thought McHugh was a shoo-in for the first team; he a spent every game in the other team's backfield mothering the quarterback. I'm thoroughly displeased find most disappointed for Mike," he said...
Wheeler has been shut down pretty effectively in recent weeks after an extraordinary start, but with Foster's presence in the backfield, he should get less attention by keying defenses and produce more of the Rashy style of running that endeared him to Harvard fans at the beginning of the year...
...these hopes were dashed on Saturday morning. November 22. Sixteen players including the entire defensive backfield and most of the defensive line, had contracted gonorrhea from three cheerleaders at a party in Providence six weeks before THE game reported an Extra edition of the Yale Daily News, had been canceled. Yale had forfeited...