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With Dick Duback, Bob Peters, and Ronnie Noonan moving up, Shepard has been experimenting with his backfield. Outsanding performers thus far have been Lou Tsavaris, John Ingraham, and quarterbacks Bill Kierstead and Howie Finney. Finney, a fairly proficient passer, was recently shifted from left half...
Dick Duback, six foot sophomore, was moved up from Shepard's squad to play safety on the second defensive backfield. Also running with this unit were ends Hank Rate and Paul Crowley, backers-up Phil Isenberg and Paul O'Brien, and halfbacks Hardy...
Working with Maloy in the Cross backfield were fullback Bob Doyle and halfbacks Jon Turco and Mel Massucco. They are fast and they carry out their fakes with surprising effectiveness. The Holy Cross T lines up with Massucco behind the quarterback and Doylo and Turco to Massucco's left, Maloy can then fake to Massucco and hand off to Turco, or fake to both halfbacks and lateral out to Doyle. May Holy Cross plays start out as end runs, with the ball carrier knifing off tackle instead...
...Yale line is 187 the Brown line, 201). Defensively, all the Bruin strength lay in the right side of the line. Guard John Chernak, great tackle, team captain Lloyd Hill, and 220-pound end Frank Powers held up so well that Pastazuk, throwing passes, kept all his backfield protection to his left. He was seldom harried from the unprotected right side...
...Backfield coach John Williams, who saw Yale defeat Connecticut last Saturday, returns to New Haven for the Eli's encounter with Brown. End coach Joe Maras goes to New York's Baker Field to see Columbia open its season against Hobart, while norm Shepard, jayvee mentor, draws the Dartmouth-Holy Cross assignment at Hanover. Ted Schmitt, line coach, travels to Ithaca for the Cornell-Lafayette game...