Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...could never have wriggled into the nation's headlines without Britton. Neither could have Harmon without Evashevski. Yet last week, just as they canonized Illinois' Red Grange 15 years before, hero-worshiping U. S. football fans spread a halo around Tom Harmon, Michigan's hula-hipped halfback who put on the best one-man show of the 1940 season, hung up a conference record of 33 touchdowns in three years' competition...
...Harmon, Michigan's triple all-American representative, led the Wolverine contingent, garnering a perfect total of 20 votes at the left-halfback post, while Forrest Evashevski, his teammate and blocking back who paves the way for many of Harmon's spectacular runs by devastating interference, was not far behind, polling just one short of a unanimous vote...
Yale is next Saturday's opponent, and their record shows no defeats. Yesterday they tied the same Princeton team that beat the Carrmen 5 to 0 in the rain. But in spite of this impressive showing the team will be encouraged by the return of halfback Bill Edgar who was injured in the Springfield game...
Nevertheless, the soccer eleven will work under one serious handicap, for halfback Bill Edgar will have to remain on the sidelines. Edgar has been a mainstay in the rear wall for three years, but in the vicious Springfield tilt last week he suffered a serious ankle injury that may keep him out of the Yale game also...
Captain Steve Mallett and Fred Parson will be as usual at the tackles, and Doug DeCoster and George Lawrence will fill the guards. The reliable combine of Wayne Johnson and Oleo O'Donnell will take care of the two halfback spots...