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Expected to provide the offensive power for the Boston College attack is big Jim Casey, 190 pound fullback, who packs plenty of drive in his running. Tom Carney, another heavy hitter, is at right half, and holding down the other halfback spot is fleet Joe Elliott...
...whatever else it might be called, is an unbalanced line, with only a guard and an end playing to the left of the center. The blocking back stands exactly behind the inside tackle, while the other three line up in a row about three yards behind the line. the fullback and tallback are behind the right and left guards, respectively, with the wingback directly to the rear of the right...
...fullback who makes or breaks this offensive formation, for he is intrusted with both the deception and the power of the attack. Really the only man for the spectator to watch if he wants to see the plays unfold in true Harlow fashion, he is the one who gets the pigskin on almost every snap in this lineup, spins and fakes it to one, two, and sometimes three-on an end around--different men, often smashing at the line then himself. Of course, added deception comes in the fact that on a fast-breaking smash, the ball sometimes goes straight...
...domination of the Harvard line was evidenced by the fact that Worcester's line-plunging fullback and co-captain, Hugo Norige, who ran wild against the Crimson last year, was stopped cold Saturday by the welded armor plate of the forward wall. Especially brilliant was the play of right guard Ed Davis and of right end Walt Coulson, versatile Freshman from Lawrence, who also did most of the punting for the Crimson...
Featuring six returning veterans from the squad that defeated the Cantabs by the score of 13 to 0 last year, the W.P.I. attack is concentrated around the hard plunging of Hugo Norige, co-captain and fullback of the squad, and the fleet flank running of halfbacks Charley Schmit and George Kennedy...