Word: backfield
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Edward William Mahan '16, of Natick, captain of the University football team, is playing in the backfield of the University eleven for the third successive season. Last year and the year before he played right halfback, while this season he has been moved to fullback. His brilliant open-field work, combined with exceptional ability in both drop-kicking and punting, has earned him a position on practically every All-American eleven that has been selected during the past two seasons...
Captain Mahan prepared at Andover, where he was a member of the football, baseball and track teams. In his last year there he captained the baseball team. He was captain of the 1916 Freshman eleven, playing in the backfield of the team that defeated the Yale Freshmen 18 to 17. Mahan won his baseball "H" two years ago, and last year was the best pitcher on the team. He is 23 years old, 5 feet 11 1/2 inches tall, and weighs 171 pounds...
...Minnesota shift, but Princeton overconfidence and Guernsey's drop-kicking made an offence practically unnecessary. The main point is, that what Yale did show in the game was good. The Yale line, given a simpler method of interference, showed the ability to be of great aid to its backfield, while the backs impressively demonstrated that they had been carefully drilled in breaking up the forward pass and that with a little more training they would be capable of producing a strong running attack...
...Princeton football team opened its season with many of its regulars out of the game because of illness and injuries. Both the line and backfield were seriously weakened, which, with the adoption of a new coaching system, made the outlook far from encouraging. The victory over Georgetown in the first game of the season by 13 to 0 was due largely to many fumbles on the part of the visiting team...
...Princeton football team had a long, hard secret practice today lasting three hours, the main feature of which was a secret scrimmage with the scrubs. Captain Glick was in at quarter, Dickerman was tried at halfback again today, with Shea and Tibbott completing the backfield...