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...players was reduced to eleven with positions about the same as on a modern team. At the same time a rule was made that the player who held the ball should put it in play by kicking or snapping it back with his foot. The player who first received the ball from the "snap-back" was called the quarter-back and was not allowed to run with the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifty Years of Harvard-Yale Gridiron Contests Reviewed on Anniversary of Classic Battle | 11/21/1931 | See Source »

...players was reduced to eleven with positions about the same as on a modern team. At the same time a rule was made that the player who held the ball should put it in play by kicking or snapping it back with his foot. The player who first received the ball from the "snap-back" was called the quarter-back and was not allowed to run with the ball...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Harvard-Yale Game Really Rugby, With Fifteen on Side, No Rests, and Spherical Ball | 11/21/1931 | See Source »

Captain Booth, after practicing with the first team, went over to the second team and ran through a dummy scrimmage. In the second team backfield, with Booth, were Sullivan at quarter-back, Taylor at right Halfback, and Ingram at fullback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASEY DRILLS ELEVEN ON DOEFENSE AGAINST YALE | 11/18/1931 | See Source »

...pounds. On the offensive, however, the 150's found it impossible to make any gains through the heavy Huntington line, and it was only when a Huntington line, and kick was blocked and the ball recovered by the speedy end, Crocker, on the one-yard line, that the Harvard quarter-back, Dearborn, was able to put it over for a touchdown. The only other chance for a score failed when Corcoran, playing at left half back, succeeded in eluding the Huntington backs, and ran loose for a 45-yard gain, but then was unable to push through for another first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 150-POUND ELEVEN WINS FROM HUNTINGTON 6-0 | 10/10/1931 | See Source »

...team from Maine will be no setup is shown by the fact that their forward wall, led by 218-pound Harris Howe, giant tackle, averages 188 pounds. Their backfield however is extremely light, averaging only 155 per man. This is mainly due to the fact that Borstein, diminutive little quarter-back, weighs only 119 pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORWEEN GIVES MEN STIFF HOUR SESSION | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

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