Word: halfback
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...eleven was loaded with reserves, it appears now that the lack of enough experienced replacements will be Coach MacDonald's main problem this afternoon. Two fullbacks, Mike Hatton and Al Merck, who saw action last Saturday will not be available today; likewise, Dave Ogden, nominee for the starting center halfback post has an injured leg and it is doubtful if he will play the full game...
Lowell and a large squad coached by former Boston College tackle Tom Thorne and may develop into a powerful club. Adams, Winthrop, and Dudley were hindered seriously by inadequate turn-outs, and coaches Bill Nolan, former Oberlin end and halfback, Winton Bigwood, onetime Harvard gridder, and Frank Frisoli, Crimson player before he took over a coaching job at Cambridge High and Latin, will have to go into their respective Houses to seek additional talent if they plan to field a formidable team on opening...
...suggest that Coach Dick Harlow's proteges will have a busy time of it come next Saturday Most of their attention, if reports seeping out of Medford are even remotely correct, will be focused on 188-pound plle-driver Charlie Fortin, who operates pretty effectively from the right halfback slot. The lanky southpaw, who passes and boots as well as he runs, gained a total of over 80 yards against Brown, in 1943, which is, or ought to be, some sort or record. His all-round talents spearheaded the Tufts offensives...
Byron ("Whizzer") White, All-America halfback, Rhodes scholar and Navy hero, who forsook professional football's enticements ($15,000 a season) to study law, got the job most coveted by fledgling barristers. The job: clerk to Fred M. Vinson, Chief Justice...
Ralph F. Petrillo, left halfback, will do most of the passing for the Crimson. Comes to Harvard after three and one-half years in the Army Air Forces...