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...quick decisions. When he makes them in his mind, he snaps them out--and that's all there is to it. "Funny," he says, "how you can always tell a back the minute you see him walk." And with that a left-end candidate becomes a third-string fullback; and what's more, he makes a lot better fullback than he did an end. That's why Harlow's a good coach instead of just a coach...
...modified single-wing. Gone, too, are the days of the long-suffering Harvard blocking back, men like George Helden and Swede Anderson who went a season through without carrying the ball. Today's quarterback has got to have a touch of Vernon Struck in him, a touch of the fullback who made the Harlow system famous in 1937 with his spins and weaves and fakes...
...spate of pre-season dope. "Head Coach J. O. Christian has used several backfield combinations during the past week in an effort to assemble his most effective unit for the opener against Harvard." This notably tough team, is made tougher by the presence of a Mr. Trojanowski, who played fullback for Connecticut Huskies last year, and was at season's end, conceded to be one of the finer backs in New England. So what do they say about him? "Wall Trojanokski is set for a starting role...
...prize crew of ex-All-Americans, such top-salaried stars as Chicago's Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch; Los Angeles' "Jarrin' " John Kimbrough; Brooklyn's thread-needle passer Glen Dobbs; New York's flat-footed Frank Sinkwich; San Francisco's 245-lb. fullback Norm Standlee. So far the old league wasn't speaking to the new, though they played in three of the same cities-New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Until their feuding stopped, pro football would have no World Series...
...least of the postwar player grabbers was Navy, which found it hard to go back to old ways. Virginia Military Academy charged that five of its best players, including Lynn Chewning, 1945 all-Southern Conference fullback, had been swiped by Navy. Moaned V.M.I. Coach Allison ("Pooley") Hubert: "It's rotten . . . they walked off with half my team...