Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Broadbent, Frame, Vincent, Wight, and Dorman are the outstanding candidates for the forward positions. At half-back there are Bland, who was selected for the All-American team in 1928, Grover, Tatham, Carrigan, and Kane, while Captain Stollmeyer, Catinella, and Blake are among the full-backs...
...Barnes Back...
With a pair of veteran guards back again for a nucleus and a group of promising youngsters rapidly rising to positions of reliability, this department of Harvard's gridiron machine is probably better fixed for the impending campaign against the country's best than any of its near relatives...
...kept him out of games. In the Pennsylvania game he collided with Paul Scull on a certain line play which left its effect on his masticating apparatus but did not keep him from action for any length of time. Trainer later described the Penn captain as the hardest running back he had ever opposed, certainly a tribute to the man whom many rated as the outstanding player of the 1928 football season. After that accident Trainer had a special mask constructed by which he could easily be recognized from the stands. His stalwart work in the succeeding games and particularly...
...expected to have a big season. He starred on his Freshman eleven and with a great future as a Sophomore predicted for him he ran into the old scholastic snag from which he did not succeed in disentangling himself until the first of last fall. When he did get back into harness he immediately set out to prove that the confidence of two year's before was not misplaced. He did this in so convincing fashion that within a week or so of the opening of practice, he found himself firmly entrenched on the first team, a position from which...