Word: halfback
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Innumerable Eliot threats were nipped by fumbles or interceptions, and finally. Branford's ground game began to click. Quarterback John Ashcroft, who led the drives, plunged over from the three-yard line for the score after being hit in his own backfield. Halfback Doc Marshall slanted off tackle for the crucial two-point conversion and Topkins' last minute passes proved useless...
Yale has talked a good deal more about injury than has Harvard, but the list is a good deal shorter. By last night it had dwindled to one, second string halfback Dick Berk. Noted primarily for his speed, Berk's loss is not considered terribly damaging to coach John Pont's backfield...
...Another halfback, junior Tom Bilodeau, also worked out last night, although Yovicsin felt he wasn't running at capacity. Nonetheless, Yovicsin hopes to use Bilodeau, who scored two touchdowns last Saturday, both offensively and defensively against Yale...
...hard to say just what approach Cornell will take. Last week against Columbia Tom Harp did some more experimenting with Wood at halfback, and the results were quite successful. Marty Sponaugle seems to have mastered several plays and appears to be an adequate quarterback. Wood, who is best at running, gets better opportunities when he doesn't have to handle the snap. He doesn't like passing all that much anyway...
...onto the field and rammed it into the goal posts until they finally fell down. Every evening, outside Jack the Barber's one-chair barbershop on Bunker Hill Street, scores of youngsters gather to ogle the neighborhood heroes, talking football inside. They wheedle and whine until Star Townie Halfback Nippy Nolan agrees-as he always does-to perform the stunt for which he is famous all over Charlestown. Crouching low taking a deep breath, he leaps up and cracks his head against Jack the Barber's ceiling just as hard as he can. Says Nippy: "I just love...