Word: halfbacks
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...Auburn University's War Eagles and the Alabama Crimson Tide play for that state's championship Lots of people take football seriously, but in Dixie it is close to religion. The late Coach Bear Bryant once endorsed the man running against former Alabama Governor Bob James because he played halfback for Auburn in the '50s In Alabama, everybody has an opinion and the rivalry has been known to divide families...
Another good sign for Harvard has been the success of running back Steve Ernst. Ernst started the year as a wingback, then moved around in Restic's midseason, injury-forced backfield reshuffling. In the Dartmouth game. Ernst shifted to halfback in place of the injured Mark Vignali. Jim Fadule started at wingback to replace Ernst, and Chuck Colombo took the first snap from center because sophomore Brian White developed a blood clot in his arm the Thursday before the game. Starting fullback Robert Santiago didn't play because of a hamstring pull; several players tried unsuccessfully to fill his shoes...
...missed field goal, the Crimson marched as far as the Penn 31 before punting. But one Quaker thought Steinberg was trying a field goal, not a punt, and stayed on the field; Penn lost the ball and 15 yards for too many men. Four plays and 16 yards later, halfback Mark Vignali carried a pitch from quarterback Greg Gizzi across the goal line...
...Staleys. By 1922 Halas had moved the team to Chicago, renamed it the Bears, and suggested that the fledgling 18-team league he played in be rechristened the National Football League. Three years later, Halas and the N.F.L. hit the big time when he signed the famed Galloping Ghost, Halfback Red Grange, who started drawing sellout crowds five days after his last college game. Tightfisted (at first he collected the tickets himself) and tough-minded (he ran up a 73-0 victory to take the 1940 league title from the Washington Redskins), "Papa Bear" Halas developed an ongoing phalanx...
Meanwhile, South halfback and Captain Andy Stoebner scored two touchdowns to lead his troops to a come-from-behind, 22-12 triumph over neighboring Currier House...