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...favorite is his account of the Georgia Tech-Cumberland U. football game in 1916. Cumberland's fullback and captain, George Allen himself, made the best run of the game for his hard pressed side: "I only lost six yards." He would have made one beautiful punt if his own center had not blocked it with the back of his neck. George recalls: "I once dropped the ball and yelled at another fellow: 'Pick it up.' He yelled back at me, 'Pick it up yourself, you dropped it.'" The score: Tech, 220; Cumberland...
Eight Freshmen played with last year's aggregation and are expected to see action again this fall McDonald also has enthusiastic words for two returning veterans, 1942 Freshman fullback Bob Purinton, whom the coach calls "an outstanding player," and Merck, captain of the 1939 Freshman team...
...McCoy means by "some good boys back and some who have entered recently." Among the returnees are Cleo O'Donnell, fleet wingback who was elected captain of the Varsity at the close of the 1942 season, and who never entered a game in that capacity; and last year's fullback, Bob Cowen, who is expected to have his Navy discharge in time to enroll for the summer term...
...Flynn, last year's tailback, is also stated to return. But the backfield situation is not to be mourned as yet. Vince Moravec, who is currently Adolph Samborski's number one boy on the mound for the Varsity baseball team, is the same young man whose 200 pounds of fullback left Dick Harlow's "Informal" line a sadder and wiser crew last fall, when Moravec helped the New London Submarine Base in its lambasting of the Harlowmen. This fall he's on our side...
...team, of course, is still in embryo form, no one having an inside track on any position, though Harlow proclaims unflinchingly that Ned Dewey will be a regular, whether it be at guard, fullback, or center...