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...Backfield power is the dominant factor in this year's all-House team. Eliot's T-quarterback Dave McGiffert, who sparked the high-scoring Mastodone all season with his ballhandling and deadeye passing, rates the nod under the center. Running in the halfback slots are Bob Zimmerman, sparkplug of second-place Leverett, and Austie Lyne of Eliot. Both these men ranked as top offensive threats. Lyne's scatback running and Zimmerman's passing standing out. At the fullback slot on the first squad is Bob Lyndblatt of Adams, whose line smashes as well as defensive prowess drew praise from Intramural...
...Crimson backfield star, whose brilliant play as a pass intercepter placed him among the nation's leaders last fall and earned him the nickname "Radar Ken," has won his Varsity letter three years running. Used exclusively on defense in 1946 because his arm was in a cast, he started six games this season as offensive quarterback...
...TIME would like very much to have "Chunkin' Charley" Conerly in its backfield (and his pass-catching teammate, ex-West Pointer Barney Poole, at left end). But neither TIME nor Michigan is trading off Bob Chappuis, who holds the alltime passing record in the Big Nine, as tough a league as there...
...Line. Local pressagents and sports editors find it easier to put across a lineman than a backfield star: there is no easy way to measure a tackle's talents or accomplishments statistically. And who can say whether Pennsylvania's 220-lb. Charles Bednarik is a better center than Kentucky's Jay Rhodemyre? The most celebrated tackles were Notre Dame's George Connor and Ziggy Czarobski, Georgia Tech's Bob Davis. Davis' team was upset last week by Alabama, 14 to 7, but he was still a hero in Atlanta...
...wild last week against Wisconsin (40 to 6) to win the Big Nine Championship and a ticket to the Rose Bowl. Bump Elliott is good on both offense and defense, but trigger-armed Bob Chappuis (TIME, Nov. 3), a specialist, is more spectacular. The only trouble with a backfield made up of the nation's four most touted backfield stars-Lujack, Conerly, Walker and Chappuis-is that there isn't a fullback among them...