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Norm Shepard's JVs, now separate from the varsity, provided the opportunity for the defensive work, emulating Massachusetts T-formation plays, especially pass plays. Then, with Joe Conzelman doing the tossing, the varsity switched to offense against a defensive JV unit. Playing with him in the backfield were Bob Cowles at fullback, Frank White, wingback, and Jerry Marsh, quarterback. All four also "started" at these positions in the principle backfield Friday...
Working with Cowles in the first backfield during the non-contact session were tailback Jim Joslin, wingback Frank White, and quarterback Joe Conzelman...
During the recent workouts Jordan has switched around his backfield men with great freedom, in an attempt to get the best balanced offensive and defensive unit. His combinations so far have not proved to have what he is looking for, and as a result the starting lineup for the opening game, against the University of Massachusetts is still unsettled...
...twelfth man is a fifth wheel in the backfield, and all five can be in motion before the ball is snapped. There is ample opportunity for the organized confusion of trick plays and hipper-dipper, crowdpleasing football. There are no time outs except for injury, and Canadian football takes on an even more frantic pace because a team is allowed only three downs to gain ten yards. Passes come fast and frequently as quarterbacks shoot for the distance. The ball changes hands so often that kicking takes on an exaggerated importance. Downfield, a punt receiver is allowed no fair catches...
...started to make a national name himself when he went to work for the old New York Mail. He moved on to the Tribune and other papers, finally began to write a syndicated column. He coined the phrase "the Four Horsemen'' for Notre Dame's famed backfield the day in 1924 that they beat Army ("Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence. Destruction and Death . . . Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller. Crowley and Layden...