Word: halfback
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...five foot, six inch, 150-lb back co-captained an undefeated Ipswich High School team three years ago. He has played both fullback and halfback this year...
...driving rain, T.C.U. made the oddsmakers look good. The Aggies were bottled deep in their own territory by fumbles, threw back repeated T.C.U. goal-line assaults, finally yielded a touchdown on a pass play in the third quarter. But then A. & M.'s little (150 Ibs.) Halfback Don Watson, who beat T.C.U. last year with a 51-yd. run, caught fire. Starting from his 43-yd. line, he scooted around left end and squirmed and squirted to a first down on the T.C.U. 20. Four plays later he lobbed a soggy pass to the goal line for the score...
...East, Syracuse, sparked by the bulling runs of a 212-lb. halfback named Jimmy Brown, battered its way to a 7-0 win over a stubborn Army team. Ivy League favorite Yale, held to a single touchdown in the first half, started punching gaping holes in the outmanned Cornell line, won 25-7. Second-ranked Princeton matched Colgate touchdown for touchdown for three periods, then -got its smoothly deceptive attack functioning to win 28-20. Columbia Quarterback Claude Benham threaded his long passes past Harvard's defenders, led his team to a 26-20 upset victory...
...third and fourth periods were both gained without the services of the three men who had been the offensive stars for the Crimson in the first half. Both fullback Tony Gianelly and right half-back Ron Eikenberry were forced to leave the game with injuries, and left halfback Walt Stahura, who scored the Crimson's 14 first half points, was thrown out of the game early in the third period for fighting. Big Green guard Bob Adelizzi was ejected with...
...opening of the second half, and it had worked. At that time, Rex short-kicked to the left, and the ball was recovered by Moss. Both teams were offside, however, and so Rex had to kick again. It was exactly the same story, except that the time left halfback Jim Mueller recovered for the Big Green...