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Yovicsin's starting backfield today will include seniors Mike Bassett at quarter back, Bill Grana at fullback, Scott Harshbarger at half, and sophomore halfback Dave Poe. Wally Grant, the team's leading rusher, is on the second unit, but he seems healthy enough to do considerable work. The only other change in the Crimson first eleven is the return of Joe Jurek to the right tackle slot...
...game of specialists," says one pro scout, "but these days, with so many players getting hurt, you've also got to find someone who can play more than one position." Nebraska's Brown is that someone. On offense, he leads the interference for a Cornhusker backfield that has averaged 270 yds. per game on the ground-tops in the nation. On defense, he is an agile, wide-ranging guard or linebacker. The pro consensus: "Amazing." Unable to find another guard of pro caliber ("After Brown there is nobody"), the scouts picked Kentucky's Turner-a tackle...
Innumerable Eliot threats were nipped by fumbles or interceptions, and finally. Branford's ground game began to click. Quarterback John Ashcroft, who led the drives, plunged over from the three-yard line for the score after being hit in his own backfield. Halfback Doc Marshall slanted off tackle for the crucial two-point conversion and Topkins' last minute passes proved useless...
...talked a good deal more about injury than has Harvard, but the list is a good deal shorter. By last night it had dwindled to one, second string halfback Dick Berk. Noted primarily for his speed, Berk's loss is not considered terribly damaging to coach John Pont's backfield...
Freshman football coach Henry Lamar, who is more than reserved in the praise of his teams, has admitted that this year's squad "has played some good ball." In a rare burst of what he might call specifics, Lamar added, "They've shown some strength in the backfield and in the line...