Word: backfields
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...Americans have cavorted on the gridiron when Crimson and Blue met in the past. An incomplete list of them includes "the grand old man of football", Amos Alonzo Stagg, Clint Frank for Yale, George Ticknor, Wood, and Chub Peabody for Harvard. But any member of the backfield is apt to look like an All-American when the Bulldog and Old Jawa come to grips. For both teams, the season is not complete without that...
...yards and a first down- and was otherwise restricted only to punting and defensive chores. There is a growing sentiment that this is his week, and the 45,000 Yale partisans that will be on hand tomorrow are praying for just that. The hale and hearty section of the backfield corps consists of quarterback Tex Furse, who has completed 55 of 90 passes for 625 yards this year, halfbacks Vandy Kirk (still nursing a head injury suffered last week) and Art Fitzgerald and sophomore Bob Raines, who has only recently risen to ground-gaining prominence...
Each Freshman practice session concludes with the backfield racing up and down the length of the practice field three or four times and the linemen pushing Lamar and an assistant around on the dummy blocking frame to avoid the natural practice "slump...
...Margarita, backfield coach, was also reached by phone at his home in Medford. He reasserted that the report was groundless. Meanwhile, Harry Jacunski was questioned at the Varsity Club, where he was going over the Yale scouting reports with Jayvee mentor Chief Boston...
After dark Dick Harlow moved his men under the Stadium lights for an exceptionally long signal drill. The A team backfield of the Brown game, consisting of Gannon, Kenary, Hal Moffie, and Paul Lazzaro remained intact, and it seems likely that this quartet will start against Yale...