Word: backfielder
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...this year's Freshmen who will become Sophomores in February, 1943, a Junior Varsity football team is planned, to be coached by Floyd Stahl. Dick Harlow's Varsity staff is going to be minus the aid of backfield coach Al McCoy, who is working at Annapolis...
...McCoy, backfield coach of the Varsity football team, and the Freshman basketball five, left Saturday to join Bill Neufeld, former Freshman track coach, in a one-month introductory course at the Naval Academy at Annapolis to prepare for service as a Naval Reserve Officer...
...Station boasted not only a crack basketball team (17 victories in 21 starts), but the No. 1 football team in the U.S. Its roster included four players who have since become famed football coaches: George Halas (Chicago Bears), Jimmy Conzelman (Chicago Cardinals), Charlie Bachman (Michigan State) and Paddy Driscoll (backfield coach for Halas' Bears). Although they played first-rate teams, including one of Knute Rockne's strongest Notre Dame elevens, Great Lakes' fabulous gobs sailed undefeated through the 1918 season, wound up in the Rose Bowl...
Excellent ability and aptitude for military science and tactics won him a place on the list of those chosen to go to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for further artillery officer training. Spreyer, a dangerous climax runner, had been expected to be the mainstay of the Crimson backfield this fall...
...Vernon Struck "the Magnificent Faker" of the 1937 team. Generalities are kept to a minimum by Harlow, but he does deviate enough to suggest that "I have found through many bitter lessons that there is no substitute for experience, and that Sophomores are a bad risk, particularly in the backfield...