Word: backer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense, the line and the backers up drew plaudits as guards Feinberg and Dravaric piled things up in the middle with guest and center Chuck Glynn, still sporting an encased writs, generally beat ball carriers to holes in, the line and disposed of them. Mel Friedman, half-time Jayvee, sometime Varsity replacement, put in a full afternoon at backer-up and as a replacement for Kenary on running plays...
Dick Harlow will have this wealth of backfield material to draw from in filling such vacancies as that left by last year's captain Cico O'Donnell, but his line is harder hit. Gone are star tackles Eddie Davis and Ned Dewey and outstanding center and the line-backer Jack Fisher, and these men will be hard to replace. Candidates for the tackle positions are speedy Howie Houston, 215-pound Chester Pierce, Ron Garvey, and Dean Markham from among the lettermen, Doug Bradlee and Alan Stone from the class of '50, and big John Gorczynski, a transfer from Pitt...
...Backer Field, a Harvardman, Navy veteran and father of two, was divorced last month. "He is interested," said Editor Mullen, "in doing something constructive about family life." Speaking for himself, Field said: "I'm interested in American Family primarily as an experiment. It's an attempt to get away from newsstand sales. Ultimately I hope to get Pocket Books [another Field enterprise] into grocery stores." Meanwhile he was keeping his job as an editorial writer on the Chicago...
...carried it on my own back until March, when I settled the severance pay [for USA workers lopped off] and one thing and another," said Field. An anonymous new backer, reportedly an oilman, was now paying the prenatal bills for unborn USA. And its editor, Norman Cousins, who also edits the Saturday Review oj Literature, was still looking for paper for the new magazine, and presses to print...
Coach Bill Barclay is keeping Tyke Wilcox and Bob Orr in the number one and two slots today, but John Noble will replace Walter Butley as Bill Ricken backer's partner in the three-and-four combination. Sam Savidge will drive off fifth, as he did Saturday against Holy Cross, but Ed Egan, instead of Lincoln Kinicutt, will trail...