Word: backfielder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Quarterback Mike Curtin will lead the powerful offense, which will also have its top four rushers back. Junior Ted Macauley, who averaged 4.3 yards per carry last year, is joined in the starting backfield by Dave Kline. Experienced receivers, led by super split end Kevin Moriarty, and a solid line should make Yale's offense formidable...
Tailback Rich Comizio, last year's Rookie of the Year, is back with fullback Mike O'Neill to make the backfield deep. The good news for the offense may end there--quarterback Jim Crocicchia missed all of last season with a shoulder injury and the receivers who accounted for 93 of the 96 receptions last year are gone...
...Crimson (see analysis, page C-1) looks to be the best of the rest. With talented senior Brian White at the offensive helm and last year's Ivy leading rusher Robert Santiago returning, the backfield promises to be one of the league's most exciting...
Dartmouth figures to be the strongest of the middle pack of Ancient Eight teams. Leading an offense returning 20 of the top 22 performers is pint-sized quarterback Brian Stretch, who is joined in the backfield by tailback Ernie Torain (4.7 yards per carry last year). The receiving corps of Scott Truitt, Doug Keare and Frank Doyle is as fine as any in the league...
...ever questions the superiority of modern athletes. Baby girl swimmers have left Johnny | Weissmuller in their backwash. An old pivot man like George Mikan would stand up against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about as well as the Four Horsemen would pull their pony weight in a National Football League backfield. Because baseball players appear not to change so much, they present their fans a wonderful illusion of constant values, like .300 batting averages. By this week, the fans should resume arguing over Pete Rose and Ty Cobb, surer than ever that human beings have always been made of the same clay...