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...members of the football pony backfield are in the starting lineup. W. B. Wood '32 has been selected to be at the initial sack while E. A. Mays '32 will hold down second base. Captain F. E. Nugent '30 at shortstop...
...teeth of a biting wind which swept across the snow-covered field, about 75 of Harvard's football candidates held their initial workout of the spring season yesterday afternoon. The practice was in charge of Coach Horween, assisted by his battery of line and backfield mentors...
Candidates for the end positions were given a brisk drill in snaring forward passes by E. H. Bradford '26, end coach, R. H. O'Connell ocC, regular end on the 1929 team, and S. C. Burns ocC, second string end last fall. The backfield men were supervised by E. L. Casey '19, head backfield coach, and W. R. Harper '30, fullback on the 1929 eleven in handling the ball, and bucking imaginary lines, while the lines were put through their offense manouevers by coaches W. A. Cleary '15, C. J. Hubbard '24, and John Donovan...
Hutchinson, the Captain of the Army team played on the Cadet football eleven in the Stadium last fall, as did Messinger, who plays right guard on the quintet. The former played in the backfield, while Messinger played end. HARVARD WEST POINT Captain Wenner, l.f. r.g., Messinger Mahady, r.f. l.g., Abell Burns or Pierce, c. c., Strother Rex or Burns, l.g. r.f., Krueger Nido, r.g. l.f., Captain Hutchinson
Frosty Peters of Illinois, Brazil of Detroit, Glasgow of Iowa, Nagurski of Minnesota-they were the East backfield. Clark of Colorado State, Benny Lom of California, Pomeroy of Utah, Gillmore of Oregon State were the West. Peters out-punted Lom, as many said he would, and even the big Texans and Californians in the Western line could not stop Nagurski's bucks. East 19, West...