Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Joining Crone in the backfield will be Rod Foster, who returned to his sophomore form a week ago against Brown, gaining 159 yards in just 13 carries and scoring two touchdowns as a fullback. At the halfbacks will be "the usuals, captain Ted DeMars and Mark Wheeler DeMars and Wheeler have combined for 969 yards between them, DeMars also leads the Crimson in scoring with seven touchdowns...
...cheering for Yale this weekend. Although my loyalty to Mother Harvard is usually unwavering, neighborhood loyalties are stronger than college ties, and one of my oldest friends is starting in Yale's backfield...
...three times, back-of-the-week for the entire area after one two-touchdown performance, and captained the South Shore Tars his senior year. After a year at a New Jersey prep school to raise his SAT's, he went to Yale, where he now starts in the same backfield with Dick Jauron and has scored...
Restic wanted to pain against the Princeton defense. But Crone's maddening habit of scrambling around the backfield and ceaselessly pumping the ball while being unable to focus on his receivers--some of whom were yards in the clear--virtually eliminated any passing attack that the Crimson coach had hoped to mount...
...practice every day, but he never knew when he'd get the chance to make the Saturday game. When he finally did, he'd still always worry that he'd rush too soon or miss a play. But three years of college football produced an attitude that DeMars's backfield coach, Bob Horan, describes as "unbeatable...