Word: halfback
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...make it five. To rub it in, Navy's gold uniforms had "Drive for Five" lettered on the back. Navy was the nation's No. 2 team. Quarterback Roger Staubach was the most talked about player in college football. Army's quarterback was a converted halfback, Rollie Stichweh, and most of the 102,000 fans in Philadelphia Stadium could not even pronounce his name (it rhymes with which...
Perhaps the steadiest player on this year's Ivy and New England championship team, Coburn started at left halfback in his sophomore year, and he played almost every game in the 1962 and 1963 seasons. He is a particularly able clutch player, and his hard defensive play in the closing minutes of the Brown and Yale games this fall was the deciding factor in the two close Crimson victories...
Busy Hands. A workaday end and halfback under Bob Zuppke at Illinois Halas had his greatest moment when a football blew up as it was kicked off by an Illini opponent. Halas grabbed the deflated ball and took off, waving it like a handkerchief as he ran "I got all the way to the 40 before somebody thought to tackle me," he chuckles. Signed as a rightfielder by the New York Yankees in 1919, Halas played in 12 games and batted .091. The Yanks lost little time replacing him with an ex-Boston pitcher named George Herman Ruth. Back...
Along with Wood, Columbia's boy wonder Archie Roberts and Dartmouth's partly crippled halfback Tom Spangenberg repeated on the first team. The other man in the first string backfield was Princeton wingback Jim Rockenbach...
...Bowl resounded with the primitive cry, "Bulldog, Bulldog, Bow Wow Wow!" A 'Cliffle said it was too cold to cry.LEFT; YALE'S BILL HENDERSON (40) RUNS INTO CRIMSON OPPOSITION DURING THE SECOND PERIOD, AS JOHN DOCKERY (44), JACK NEUENSCHWANDER (70), AND RICK BEIZER (26) CONVERGE ON THE ELI HALFBACK. HENDERSON'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE ELI VICTORY WAS MORE THAN CONSIDERABLE, HOWEVER, AS HE SET UP YALE'S FIRST TOUCHDOWN WITH A 79 YARD KICKOFF RETURN. RIGHT: CRIMSON CENTER BRAD STEPHENS (55) BRINGS DOWN ELI FULLBACK CHARLES MERCEIN (30) IN THE THIRD PERIOD OF SATURDAY'S GAME. RICK BEIZER...