Word: tailback
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...backfield averages about 170 pounds, about the same as the line. In the blocking back post is Roy Moore, a speedy and effective interferer for Jack McClure, tailback, on the latter's off-tackle smashes. The two occasionally switch positions as in the last Winthrop game...
...James, sophomore tailback injured in scrimmage Monday afternoon, is definitely out of the Virginia game and probably out of the Yale fray also, it was revealed last night by coaching officials. Harlow's third string tailback completed three out of four passes in the Army game, one of them for a touchdown...
...loss of James saw the shift of Ray Jones, former J. V. star and a Varsity wingback so far this year, to the tailback post. Jones will thus have the play-calling assignment under Frank Foley and Austie Harding...
Dubious honor of sustaining the first scrimmage injury of the football year went yesterday to Bob Jemes, third string Sophomore tailback who hit the limelight by his forward passing in the Army game. James, who ranks under Frank Foley and Austie Harding, suffered a severe bumping as "B" team scrimmaged a combination of "C" and the J. V. 's and was taken to the Infirmary...
Here, in the final quarter, the Kirkland running attack came to life, when Roy Moore shifted to the tailback post and eloped through Winthrop for two first downs. Another fumble gave Winthrop the ball, and the Puritans, with Joo Peden and Phil Starr heaving, completed four passes, each 20 yards, to bring the Puritans to the Kirkland five yard line...