Word: backfield
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...work for Princeton this week will consist in improving the backfield. In Saturday's game with Tufts, the Princeton line was unusually strong. Again and again, it would break through and stop the Tufts' backs before they got well started. But on the offense, Princeton failed. The tendency toward fumbling and inability to play hard football when a few yards would mean a touchdown were the main faults...
...against Andover last Saturday, will soon be in the game again, and R. A. Lancaster '20, who was injured in the game, will be out in a few days. The only change in the line-up was that B. Blanchard '20 replaced R. H. Post, Jr., '20 in the backfield, the line and the other backs remaining the same as last week. The practice was light but fast and the coaches tried particularly to improve the defense, especially against forward passes, for it was due to Andover's good passing that the Freshman lost Saturday's game...
...will be a formidable line that will oppose Andover this afternoon. Form tackle to tackle the 1920 line will average 198 ponds. It will support a backfield that is both fast and heavy. Head Coach W. Rollins '16 has been drilling the men especially the backfield in the fine points of the game and in scrimmages early in the week with the second squad, the team has played well...
Little is known of the Andover eleven except that it has a good backfield. The Academy team is under a new coach this season, and it will be the first opportunity to see how effective his methods will...
...appear in the line-up which is to start today's game, the eleven men whom the coaches have picked do not represent a substitute line-up. Wheeler, Snow and Lovell, in the line, are all strong players and tried men, while Burnham, Horween and Casey in the backfield have demonstrated their worth more than once this year. More-over, the regulars who do not appear upon the list of those beginning the contest, are all available for use, with exception of Bond and possibly Taylor, in case the necessity arises...