Word: backfielder
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...Backfield action was limited to running practice and starts. Earl Trucker, all-Minneapolis back, Dick Clasby, Bill Frate, and Warren O'Donnell, all with outstanding prep-school records, are candidates for starting positions. O'Donnell is a brother of Cleo and Ken, former Crimson captains...
...second team includes Paul Crowley and Stan Britton, ends; Bob Stargel and Duke Sedgwick, tackies, Bob Fallon and Hank Toepke, guards; Buddy Lemay, center; Lowenstein, Dusty Burke, Red Wylie, and Tom Ossman in the backfield. This group includes five sophomores...
However, it seemed to this observer that the White backfield of Lowenstein, Blitz, Edorer, and O'Neill, had the edge over the first string Red quartet of Isenberg, West, Warren Wylie, and Bill Healey. Blitz especially was outstanding, exhibiting both speed and agility in his end sweeps and drive in his line plunges...
Harold M. "Josh" Williams of the University of Pittsburgh will be Lloyd Jordan's backfield coach, William J. Bingham '16 announced last night. The 45-year-old football mentor is the second assistant from Pitt to be appointed to Coach Jordan's staff...
Williams, who graduated from Pitt in 1931, played right halfback in Jack Sutherland's single-wing system. He served as Sutherland's backfield coach in 1937 and 1938 and later in the same capacity at the University of Florida. From 1941 to 1947 he worked with T and Split-T formations at Temple University, but has coached a single-wing backfield at his alma mater for the past two seasons...