Word: backfielder
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Nelson is familiar with the Stadium. He tried it out in 1940 when he was the wingback on the Michigan team that shut out Harvard 26-0. The three other men in the backfield were named Tom Harmon, Forrest Evashevski, and Bob West fall...
...field, Davey is rarely still. Through the first weeks of pre-season workouts, following the maxim, "You can't play without practice," he maintained a killing pace for himself as well as for the backfield squad. There's been less actual field work since then--"it never seemed to get dark so early out in Michigan...
...Crimson's backfield coach certainly doesn't fall into the superstitious class. Like all of the new football family, he counts the final score as the big thing. "There's no such thing as a moral victory" was his remark before the Columbia game, and it apparently keynoted that week...
...Deacons, who won from Eliot in a playoff Tuesday after the two teams had ended the season in a tie, will rely on their crafty Michigan-style single-wing spinner formation, with its effective trio of plunging backs: Jerry Glynn, Willie Thompson, and Jacques Winter. Rounding out the backfield is quarterback Hollis French, who handles the team's passing...
Chip Gannon and Jim Kenary joined O'Donnell in the defensive backfield with Phil Isenberg and Paul O'Brien backing up the line. Jim Noonan and Kenary handled the bulk of the passing assignments in the offensive dummy drill which followed the defensive workout against the Jayvees. It was in the dummy session that the Crimson functioned most smoothly, going through its latest cycle of plays with a reasonable degree of precision...