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...this is not necessarily the case. The Quakers have, potentially, one of the most explosive backfields in the Ivy League, and some solid linemen. with the return to health of tailback George Koval, Penn can put on an aerial show that will more than equal anything the Crimson has seen all year...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Crimson Eleven to Face Action Today Against Threatening Penn Air Attack | 10/29/1960 | See Source »

Triumph & Defeat. At least two dozen colleges bid for Johnson. He chose U.C.L.A. "because there was something about the atmosphere I liked." To concentrate on the decathlon. Johnson passed up college football, much to the frustration of the late coach Red Sanders, who saw in Johnson a future brilliant tailback in U.C.L.A.'s single-wing formation. Freshman Johnson improved fast enough in the decathlon to win the 1955 Pan American Games in Mexico City, celebrated by scoring 7.985 points at a welcome-home meet in Kingsburg-thereby breaking Mathias' world record by 98 points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: To Do a Little Better | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

Coach Dick Colman has the proper personnel. Tailback Hugh Scott, though not exceptionally fast, has proved an extremely powerful and canny runner as well as a capable passer. At present he is third in the league in total offense with 358 yards...

Author: By Alexander Finley, | Title: Crimson Challenges Slightly Favored Tigers; 35,000 Expected to Attend Last Home Game | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...tailback, the strong man of the backfield, normally throws 90 per cent of the Tiger aerials as well as performing much of the running. For a change of pace, though, Iseman will take the ball, fake a reverse, and throw deep to Ed Kostelnik, second All-Ivy choice last year...

Author: By Alexander Finley, | Title: Crimson Challenges Slightly Favored Tigers; 35,000 Expected to Attend Last Home Game | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...sole Brown touchdown came late in the second period after the Bruins had lost four yards in three plays. Rolling through a muddy Harvard defense, Cub quarterback Dennis Hauflaire snagged a pass from tailback Dennis Redding and galloped into the end zone. Brown missed the conversion, but seemed on its way to a victory when the half ended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Crush Brown, 20-6, After Three Scoreless Quarters | 11/3/1959 | See Source »

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