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Today, Princeton's offence seems improved over last year's, and the Crimson defense is definitely not as good as the one paced by and Lanny Keyes. Yet fullback Tim Morgan has shown signs of becoming once again one of the League's most feared fullbacks, and captain Bill Driver, Feter Savage, and Bill King have provided increasingly effective aid from their halfback positions, Forbush and John Adams are at least adequate in the goal...
...Rand and Dave Clapp will flank hard at halfback, and John Kernochan will provide relief. Louie Williams, whom Getchell compares to former varsity great Lanny Keyes, will start at left fullback, and Nate Emmons will be at right. Varsity coach Bruce Munro reportedly has his eye firmly fixed on Williams...
...Nothing helped. Though undefeated, Syracuse squeaked through game after game, was the flop of the football year because it seemed to be living on its reputation as last year's national champion. Last week Coach Ben Schwartzwalder even threatened to demote some of his stars, including 215-lb. Fullback Art Baker, a preseason All-America candidate. Snapped Coach Ben: "If any of you boys sulk about being put on the second team and don't play well there, we'll see how you like it on the third team...
...have more talent and more learning ability than the specialist. If we don't get the top backfield star of a high school, we look for the second best man with the hope he can be converted into a first-rate lineman. I especially like to get fullbacks overlooked by the 'money schools' -a high school coach will always put his biggest, strongest kid at fullback...
Around this basic maneuver Schwartzwalder has built a system of plays that unfold with the relentless logic of a theorem in geometry. "We keep slamming that fullback off-tackle, and the defense has to bunch up to stop us. So the quarterback will fake the ball to the fullback and run outside himself, or pitch out to the tailback who's trailing him. Now they've got to bring up their secondary. That leaves them weak for option passes thrown by the tailback...