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...addition to Jackson and Minisi in the backfield were Gene Rossides of Columbia and Yale's Fred Nadhernay...
Walt Coulson and John Fiorentino, ends; Ned Dewey, tackle; Emil Drvaric and Nick Rodis, guards; and Jack Fisher, center, were named to the all-star line. Captain Oleo Odonnell and Vince Moravec were singled out in the backfield...
...remainder of the backfield is still in a state of extreme flux. A lot depends on what formation Coach Harlow decides on for his 1947 outfit. There are signs that the wily oologist still has his heart set on using a straight T sometime soon, despite his hasty abandonment of it this year. When Dick switched to his mysterious L formation, he did so because he had no heavy-duty blocking back or T quarterback, and wanted to make his outside plays go by using his guards for the line trapping and by giving his blocking backs easy angles...
With many capable linemen backing up his regulars and a full spring practice behind his backfield men, Harlow promises to produce a 1947 eleven that could stand this year's on its head. At any rate the master-mind will be in there pitching, as his wife could probably tell you. She woke up at 6:30 o'clock this past Sunday,--if the tale is not apocryphal--found Mr. Harlow's light on, and asked him to explain. The reply: "Just thinking up a couple of plays for next year's Yale game, my dear...
...even the gamest team can be ground down, and as the Blue backfield promenaded all over the field Saturday, many were the grumbles from deep inside the raccoon coats. This was Yale, and early-season wins over provincial seminaries were merely so many statistics cluttering up the record. In other years, this unyielding Sophomorism would have been as much a part of the proceedings as Handsome Dan. But this year it must not be allowed to cloud the fact that a green team, playing together for the first time, rose from the nether corners of the Ivy League doormat, where...