Word: stand-off
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Channing, a sophomore who gained his proficiency through his playing at Canford School, England, will take care of the stand-off half position. Fisher and Brooks are graduate students who formerly played with Princeton. Howard has ably covered the right inside for all the games so far this year...
...Blue and International in his freshman year at Caius College; J. E. Bowcott, 145-Ib. scrum-half, smallest man on the team, whose spectacular lateral passing led to three Cambridge tries; Cliff Jones, a spry little 154-lb. Welsh freshman of Clare College, already considered one of the best stand-off halves in England. He recovered from a tonsillectomy just before the first game, almost scored a try in the first period, then fractured his ankle badly and was whisked to a hospital, leaving Cambridge to play through the rest of the game with a side...
...University team is to be as follows: fullback, E.C. Carter '31: right wing, C.A. Snelling '31; right center, Whitney; left center, Huguley; left wing, G.G. Hartridge '32; stand-off half, Rawn Brinkley '31; scrum half, E.C. Pugh '33; front row forwards: Bruce Elmore '34, P.W. Bockery 1L, Trainer; second row forwards: Thomas Linder, Jr. '33, R.W. Straus '31; third row forwards: W.W. Boyd '33, W.D. Carter '31, R.K. Farris 2G.B...
...Wickersham report, product of more than nineteen months of expert investigation, is a stand-off pure and simple. Whatever the endeavor, the result is a document that is all things to all men. Read one way, neither wets nor dry can extract much solace from it; read another, both can find comfort in it, the wets because nearly all of the individual opinions favor their side of the cause, and the dry because the report as a whole stands for the existing order of things...
...opposing teams, and his tackling had been weak, but on Saturday he was always ready for Yale's fake kick runs, and he tackled hard and surely. Starr also filled his position well and, as usual, his tackling was his strong point. From tackle to tackle it was a stand-off between the two lines on the offense, with a slight advantage in favor of Yale in defensive work. Parker, although suffering from his old injuries, played throughout the first half and was in every line play. Hoar, who took his place, played and aggressive and strong game. Grant...