Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...playing of Crickard on Saturday has created a problem in the backfield, but quite a pleasant one. With the veterans, Devens and Mays back it would not be unlikely that Harvard's lateral pass twins of last year would be split up and paired off with Crickard and Schereschewsky, giving Coach Horween two sets of Team A halfbacks. In this event it would probably be Devens and Crickard in one pair and Mays and Schereschewsky in the other. Then there still would be Batchelder and Record or Forbes for a third combination...
...took Pennsylvania a whole period to get going against Virginia, but after that her famed backfield (Gentle, Masters, Greene, Gette) was sent in. Their plunges, reverse plays and lateral passes had the inevitable result. Pennsylvania 40, Virginia...
Georgia Tech's Golden Tornado petered out against the hard-running members of Carnegie Tech's pony backfield. Carnegie Tech 31, Georgia Tech...
...Harvard had its full strength in the game today there is but little doubt that Coach Horween's team would be a favorite at good odds. But Devens is lost to the backfield and Talbot and Ogden to the line. Last night it was still undetermined whether or not Mays would be allowed to enter the tilt. With Devens and possibly Mays out of the backfield most of the punch is gone and the duty to carry on falls on the shoulders of Schereschewsky and Batchelder. The former has never started in a big game while the latter is still...
...line the play of the ends and the tackles defensively will be the deciding factors. The ends have no Cagle to worry about this year but they have an array of backs to watch, and the most deceptive offensive system in the country to combat. In the backfield the manner in which the understudies execute the lateral pass will be one of the deciding factors of the game. But Harvard's chief threat lies in the new plays that have been designed especially for Army and the judgment and resourcefulness Wood shows in calling them