Word: backfielder
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...Navy tacticians, who may have revised their first plans after the Gilberts attack, did not choose to invade the strong bases nearest Pearl Harbor (Wotje, Maloelap), nor those nearest the Gilberts (Jaluit, Mili) on the south. Instead they slapped around the enemy's end and pounced into his backfield, all the way to Kwajalein, largest atoll of them all (and reportedly the chief supply station for the Marshalls group...
...season's feature was the old T formation heavily refurbished, a backfield line-up that looks just as it sounds. Because its deception makes it fun to play, and because its line play is individual rather than team blocking, the T was ideal in a season of short practices and shifting squads. With its fancy ball handling, the T was also responsible for many fumbles and heavy penalties for holding by linemen...
...Harvard, Lucius chartered a plane from which he attempted to festoon the late J. P. Morgan's yacht, Corsair, with toilet paper, initiated a poll to decide whether Harvard should trade President Lowell and three full professors for a good running backfield (the motion was lost, 1,234-to-1,227), borrowed and surreptitiously published manuscript poems by Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. Shortly thereafter, Lucius left Harvard and joined the staff of the New York Herald Tribune...
Before the game Del Monte was a 5-to-1 favorite to win. Unbeaten in four starts, it was rated the strongest service eleven in the U.S. The backfield alone was good enough for any professional team: "Passing Paul" Christman of Missouri, Fordham's Len Eshmont, Ohio State's Jim McDonald, Parker Hall of Mississippi and the Cleveland Rams. Right end was 225-lb. Ed Cifers, All-America from Tennessee; left end was another All-America, Bowden Wyatt of Mississippi...
...absence from the university, 2) the backing of the rich Columbia Foundation of San Francisco, 3) the advice of No. 1 Stanfordian Herbert Hoover, and 4) the conviction that big things can be done in international education. Dean Kefauver is the quarterback of a hard-driving Stanford educational backfield (Paul Hanna, Isaac James Quillen, Paul Leonard) whose energy is well known in professional pedagogical circles and seems bound to register soon on a much wider audience...