Word: halfback
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...halfback, Getchell has Pete Erskine, Bill Rapp, Charlie Steele, Pete Niebyl, Tom Gleason, and John Freeman contending for three starting posts. Full-back Dale Fruman and linemen Jay Draper, Dick Emrich, Joe Pelligrino, Mike Falk, and "Doc" Bennett also figure in Getchell's plans, but he's not sure where...
Veteran Chris Hasiotis, a senior, will direct the team from the T-formation. His backfield will consist of sophomores Charlie Devens and Tom Lawson at the halfback positions, with junior Mickey Maguire running from the fullback spot...
...tied 7-7. Daugherty had a new tactic ready. Coming out for the second half his team shifted to a weird formation-a single wing to the right with the line unbalanced to the left. Disconcerted and caught unprepared, the rugged Stanford line split wide open. State's Halfback Clarence Peaks knifed ruthlessly between linemen cut down by blockers they never saw. Before the Stanford team could diagnose the new offense, Daugherty's boys had scored two touchdowns. That was the game; when the final whistle blew, Michigan State was the winner by a comfortable...
...Animal," the players call Agase, though off the field he is the mildest of men. End Coach Bob Devaney, a relatively soft-spoken taskmaster from Alma (Mich.) College, works patiently with backs practicing pass defense. Eyes flitting from side to side like a bingo player handling three cards, Halfback Red Kowalczyk backpedals frantically between two receivers, reaches up in time to knock down a pass. " 'At's the way to go," Devaney shouts. A moment later Kowalczyk is out in the flat, trying to keep an eye on a man gone deep, trying to guard against a hooking...
There is plenty of racking up. Hard-driving second stringers like nothing better than knocking a varsity halfback loose from the ball. And Duffy is always there, watching every block, almost on top of every pileup. Hit hard, one boy rips out an oath, and Duffy tells him quietly: "All right, all right, son. We don't need any sermons this morning...