Word: backfielder
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...huddle, and Cleo O'Donnel are the 1944 running threats. Saturday Johnson tallied once on a seventy-yard jaunt, tossed a scoring pass to Pete Truesdale, and kicked two points for his afternoon's contribution. O'Donnell, a very speedy halfback, took Steve Gifford's place in the backfield, when Steve was laid out for the season with a back injury. Howie Gleason has been a consistent starter, and at present there is a ding-dong battle waging between Swede Anderson and Tom Cowen for the bucking spot in Boston's backfield...
...last year's Yardling team before he was forced out with a serious back injury early in the season. A broken leg kept him out of most of spring practice and as a result he was slow in breaking into the lineup this fall. His chief asset in the backfield is speed...
Henry Vander Eb sparked the backfield, carrying the ball on spinner plays, kicking, and accounting for a number of interceptions...
...help us if Harvard ever assembled a nice, honest semi-pro football team like Boston College. The grateful New England scribes would probably nick-name the backfield "the scrambled eggs" in honor of Dick Harlow. The newest angle to be played up for a local consumption is the likening of Coach Frank Leahy of Boston College to the immortal Knute Rockne (Leahy's team accomplished the stupendous feat of beating Tulane, which has yet to win its first game this year). Dave Egan was only groping around in the dark last spring, letting loose an occasional blast at Harvard...
...particular I would like to praise the work of Captain Joe Gardella in the backfield and Chub Peabody in the line. The lien rushed us on passes so that we couldn't get our aerial attack going," asserted the Michigan candidate for the back-of-the-year honors...