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Dick Harlow announced his starting line for Saturday but indicated that the opening backfield would not be nominated until shortly before game time. Loren MacKinney, Vern Miller, Chub Peabody, Burgy Ayres, Dick Pflster, Tom Healey, and Gene Lovett are the seven men who have won the Harlow stamp of approval to halt the Blues...
Bill Coleman will undoubtedly get the call at quarterback, but the other three positions are wide open. Captain Torbie Macdonald, Frannie Loe, Joe Gardella, George Heiden, and Charley Spreyer are all equally well at home in more than one backfield assignment. Weather conditions at 1:45 o'clock Saturday may play a big part in determining the starting Crimson ball-carrying quartet...
...sensational, but he was responsible in large part for the Puritan record of holding their seven. House opponents to two points while his teammates were scoring 74. A bulwark on defense week after week, his efficient blocking added much to the power of the highly touted Winthrop backfield...
...backfield this year there was a large quantity of starring material to choose from. George Varn, Dunster; Murray Helpern, Dudley; George Dreher, Winthrop; and Roy Moore, Kirkland, were the four picked from an outstanding crop, with Bill Tyng, Joe Peden, Bob Russell, and Dick Lewis, representing Leverett, Winthrop, Eliot, and Lowell as runners...
...line, John Dimeff played a standout game at left end as did Wood at tackle. Buckley and Tine were the main guns in the backfield...