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Bill Healey will probably be both the first-string tailback and the starting safety man when the varsity football team meets Army tomorrow in the Stadium. Coach Lloyd Jordan yesterday admitted that Healey, who so far this year has played defensive halfback and occasional wingback, would take on the two crucial positions...
Toro played four years of first-string varsity soccer at Phillips Exeter Academy, and captained the team his senior year. He started as a halfback, switched to fullback and played center forward his two final years...
...looking like the class of this year's House league, tipped the freshman "B" squad, 18-7, yesterday on the House fields. The Puritans scored three times in the first half, once on a two yard quarterback sneak by Walt Greeley, and twice on long passes from Greeley to halfback Bill Hickey...
Army's backfield tottered off on the wrong foot with first stringers quarterback Fred Meyers and halfback Tom Bell out of commission and with second quarterback Dick Boyle recuperating from an injury and comparatively ineffective. The majority of the quarterbacking was done by Pete Vann, a hard-passing freshman. And there is little doubt that ends like Weaver and Sisson made Vann look better than he actually was. Another freshman, fullback Dick Reich, developed as the workhorse of the Pointers...
...picture hits the line too hard. As a poor, first-generation American hungering for education, glory, and acceptance in the uppercrust world typified by Jackson College, Halfback Derek gets buried in such a pile-up of broken illusions that the movie looks like a put-up job. Football brings him fleeting glory, leaves him no time to study, wins him only the snooty tolerance of Jackson's aristocrats and (until the fadeout) the well-born girl (Donna Reed) he loves. It crushes his body and his self-respect to feed the ambitions of a string-pulling alumnus (Sidney Blackmer...