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Donald Colantino '56, backfield candidate for the freshman football team, underwent an emergency leg operation at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital last night. Colantino received a simple fracture of his leg in practice yesterday...
...Yale Bowl last November. At ends were Hank Rate and Paul Crowley and the tackles were Bob Stargel and Hank Toepke. John Jennings (subbing for the injured Eli Manos) and Art Pappas teamed at the center. First line center Buddy Lemay, uninjured but unwell, watched from the sidelines. The backfield was made up of Gill O'Nell at quarterback; John Culver, fullback; Dick Clasby, tailback; and John Ederer, wingback...
...players were already out on the J.V. field, warming up and posing for pictures. Jordan was being posed with Captain John Nichols, in the traditional picture. Standing nearby and ready to charge upon the photographers was the probable backfield, John Ederer, Dick Clasby, John Culver, and Gil O'Neil. Meanwhile, a group of linemen was working with Ted Schmitt. They would line up, four abreast, and then charge...
...Taft, Harold ("Red") Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of the Illinois backfield in the early '20s and now a Chicago insurance man, because "there are a lot of problems facing us . . . and I think the same way Taft does...
Outstanding for the Cliffe were Kitty Coolidge and Nina Bohlen in the backfield and Joyce Bisbee at wing. On the whole, the game was a purely defensive one for the Cliffedwellers; the forward line had a hard time keeping up with the speed and stick work of their opponents...