Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...times in succession to their opponents 10-yard line. However, the coaches decided not to let them score, and gave the ball to the second team in the middle of the field. Nevertheless, the scrubs were unable to gain through the line of their heavier opponents. Knapp at halfback and Sturm at fullback were the individual stars of team "B" and it was due largely to their line-plunging ability that their team was able to advance with so little difficulty...
...forward pass up to a high state of perfection, he has not abandoned his running attack with Kaw and Mayer as the chief weapons of offense. Press reports from Ithaca would give one to believe that Dobie has unearthed a real star in this man Kaw, a lanky halfback who seems to fall at nothing...
...them in condition to face Nebraska Saturday, Coach Bezdeck prescribed for them a day of tough scrimmage and a long signal drill yesterday. As a result of Saturday's game, only two men were seriously enough injured to be out of practice. Charlie Way, the plucky little halfback whom many consider a strong contender for the All-American team, and who, although injured in the first few minutes of play Saturday, stayed in until nearly the middle of the game, is again in first-class condition. He is one of the cleverest broken-field runners in Eastern football...
Warner, the Eli halfback, was used very effectively in line plays. In the final period he tore through center for Yale's second touchdown...
...fullback, was easily the greatest factor in the victory, scoring one of the two Freshman touchdowns and consistently out-punting his rivals. Gehrke's score came in the first period, after the Academy, with a ten yard pass and a brilliant 25-yard run by Ellis, their flashing halfback, had succeeded in crossing the Freshman goal line. Four rushes by Gehrke, one of twenty-eight yards, and two by P. Jenkins carried the ball straight down the field 75 yards for a touchdown, which the former made. The lighter schoolboy line seemed to crumple before Gehrke's driving plunges, which...