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Tackle John Nicholas and tailback Dick Clasby have been named to the first and second teams, respectively of the United Press' All New England football squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nichols Picked as All New England By U.P.; Clasby Makes Second Team | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Clasby, a sophomore from Natick, became number one tailback for Harvard when Carroll Lowenstein was drafted earlier in the fall. He easily held down the position for the rest of the fall and impressed opponents with his triple-threat abilities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nichols Picked as All New England By U.P.; Clasby Makes Second Team | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Princeton tailback Dick Kazmaier was voted the outstanding college football player of the year by the Maxwell Club of Philadelphia on Monday. Last year's Maxwell Cup winner was Reds Bagnell of Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kazmaier Wins Award | 11/21/1951 | See Source »

...Elis chose the latter method and met with some success at the outset. The game fell apart when the tailback started to heave regularly to ends of the calibre of John Emery. Frank McPhee, and Len Lyons, all of whom seem to be able to steal any ball thrown within ten yards of them...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/21/1951 | See Source »

...consistent power of Osaman--122 yards in 27 tries--and the fine outside work of tailback Dick Clasby which sustained the scoring marches. Clasby threw two scanty passes, but his double threat was enough to keep the Brown defense drawn well back. On at least two occasions, Clasby, back to pass, could find no receivers, so he had to run. He made ten yards each time, totalled 126--in 29 tries altogether...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Inspired Eleven Rips Brown, 34-21 | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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