Word: halfbacks
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...Tigers lead the list of the Ivies also-rans. Princeton football has fallen on hard times the last five years, but a revival of sorts is due this year. A fine quarterback, Ron Beible, leads the offense, which will miss standout halfback Walt Snickenberger. The defense, with many returning starters, should be improved...
Penn has had excellent teams the last two years, but the people who made the Red and Blue go are gone: halfback Adolph Bellizeare and quarterback Marty Vaughan have graduated, leaving the offense without its explosiveness. The defense, never a Quaker strength, should be porous once again...
...youthful fantasies of athletic and literary glory ripened into alcoholism, two ruined marriages, three stints in state mental institutions. For winters on end, he remembered, all that kept him lurching from Sunday to Sunday was an obsession with pro football and the exploits of New York Giant Halfback Frank Gifford, a classmate at the University of Southern California. To Exley, 45, Gifford's triumphant career provided weekly proof of his own status as an All-America flop...
...three-man team uses a flexible formation with a #1 player primarily on offense, a #2 player who is a type of roving halfback, and a #3 player whose role is primarily defensive...
Guest speaker at the dinner was former Crimson halfback Bobby Leo '67, who was awarded the Lowe trophy in 1966 and coached McInally as a freshman. He said, "even in the pros I haven't seen many people catch the ball with the ability Pat has, and he made some catches that I still can't believe...