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Freshman coach Bob Margarita will start the best backfield he's yet nursed varsity-ward this Saturday against the Brown Cubs, but the team will be led by a 212 pound lineman from Alliquippa...
Before the '57 team took the field, Jordan put his first line and second backfield through a defensive scrimmage against the junior varsity version of the Davidson offense. Simultaneously the first backfield and second line ran offensive plays in a dummy scrimmage with second string jayvees...
...Yardlings faced a backfield which included halfbacks Carroll Lowenstein and Dick Hoffman, fullback Brian Reynolds, and Conzelman at quarterback. Talking about the freshman showing Jordan said, "They tackled very well, and that's very important. We look at defense first." It probably wouldn't hurt his feelings any if freshman coach Bob Margarita developed another Meigs...
...picked themselves off the turf after the Spartans' 19-point explosion, they might well have asked the old question: "What happened?" What happened essentially was that T.C.U. ran head-on into the Biggie Munn method: throw in plenty of fresh, first-class players. Munn uses a fast, "pony" backfield to run the enemy ragged, then bowls them over with hard-charging heavyweights. Even in the new era of limited substitutions (which Munn, an old friend of two platoons, deplores), Michigan State uses 35 or 40 almost equally proficient men a game...
...first time this season, Cal Lowenstein will also operate in the Crimson backfield. He will probably work from a T-formation, although he has been scrimmaging at tailback and other single-wing positions for most of this week...