Word: backfielder
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...Crimson team will be about the same as usual. The line, from left to right end, will be Bill Hickey, Leo McGrath, Chick Chandler, Pete Cook, Tony Caimi, Captain Stan Miller, and Bill James. In the backfield Brint Donaldson will start at quarterback, Ronnie Noonan at fullback, and Bill Van Epps and Ronnie Messer at the halfbacks...
Expected to play a lot, especially on defense, are Dave Silverman, Dave Hiller, Sid Kane, Adams Hinds, Fred Horween and George Bates in the line, and Earl Trucker, Buddy Linn, Howie Finney, and Steve Lemman in the backfield...
When the Blue defensive eleven tired, several gaps showed. The ends were very turnable. The middle of the line fell apart before Kazmaier and fullback Russ McNeil. On passes, McPhee constantly outwitted Jerry Conway and Lou Polk of the weaker right side of Yale's defensive backfield...
...spectacular one-man show, Kazmaier ripped through the undefeated Cornell line, averaging seven yards a crack, completed a phenomenal 15 out of 17 passes and personally accounted for 360 yards gained-70% of Princeton's total and more-by half as much again-than the entire Cornell backfield...
...quick kick. He is effective at all three. His running has no pounding power, no blinding speed. But a trail of sprawling, frustrated tacklers attests to a swivel-hipped shiftiness, a ball-bearing glide that enable him to change pace or direction without losing stride. Judd Timm, the Princeton backfield coach, an ex-trackman at Illinois, describes Kazmaier's running style: "He runs 'light,' with a nice forward lean; if he wants to slow down to pick up a blocker, he just straightens...