Word: halfback
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Defense against aerial threats showed improvement over past performances this season. Art Fitzgerald, the halfback who scored three times against the Crimson last year, made his first appearance in heavy drill after a layoff of more than two weeks, following an aggravation of a pre-season injury in the Dartmouth game. Vandy Kirk, who broke his hand against Princeton, was on hand, but did not participate in heavy action...
Twenty minutes later the Bruins tied up the contest on as freakish a play as has occurred this season. When the ball went out of bounds in fairly deep Harvard territory, the Crimson right wing threw it in to his halfback. The half-back, evidently thinking that he should make the throw-in, picked up the ball and started to the sidelines. The referee blew his whistle, ruled that a legal throw-in had been made, and called a hands penalty on the Crimson. On the subsequent free kick, Guiseppo Antone nudged the ball in for the only Brown score...
Only two of the regular backfield will start against the Cantabs, Roy Swingler, driving full back, and chuck Nelson, right half, top pass receiver and pas defender of Abe Englemen. Tommy Dorsey, left halfback may start although he has been bothered by a nose injury this week...
...begun noticing odd things about halfway through the game. The way he couldn't relax with everyone else after the star halfback limped off the other side of the field, and the way he wondered whether the back would go to class Monday, and most of all whether he'd have to be banged up again before he got his letter. On the way back from the game he watched lots of things he never saw before: the foolishness of an empty stadium, the sad looks on the peddlers who got stuck with left-over pennants, the way the House...
...Kenary, the best passer on the team, will do the quarterbacking with Don Trimble, a dangerous runner and good pass catcher, at the left half. Al Craft will start in the right halfback slot and Howie Muffle at fullback. Muffle is the team's punter and also a good passer and runner...