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Whether he likes it or not, Dawson is the star of the Harvard football team, the tough-to-tackle backfield threat, the Division I-A transfer who has distinguished himself as the greatest rusher ever to wear crimson, the consensus first team All-American on pace to be the best back in Ivy history...
...Crimson backfield maintained its scoreless streak by holding off a penetrating Quaker attack through the waning minutes of the game. Harvard graduated its starting goalie in Aliaa Remtilla and primary back-up in Anne Haig, making the efforts all the more impressive...
...becoming a real leader in the backfield,” DeAngelis said. “She’s stepped in and hasn’t been fazed by being a freshman and has become pretty solid part of our team...
...Payton is all-around the most productive football player of the two-platoon era. "For most of his career, teams have been able to key on him alone," notes Defensive Tackle John Dutton of the Dallas Cowboys, "and still no one has stopped him." Matt Suhey, Payton's current backfield mate, figures that "the best ground-gaining combination of all time is Walter Payton and any other running back...
DIED. James H. ("Sleepy Jim") Crowley, 83, last of the great "Four Horsemen" backfield that led Notre Dame to a 19-1 record in the 1923-24 seasons; in Scranton, Pa. The small (160 lbs.), swift Crowley was immortalized with his teammates by Sportswriter Grantland Rice: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden...