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...backfield averages about 170 pounds, about the same as the line. In the blocking back post is Roy Moore, a speedy and effective interferer for Jack McClure, tailback, on the latter's off-tackle smashes. The two occasionally switch positions as in the last Winthrop game...
Admission to the pictures will be free, although the showing of Bursar's cards will be necessary. Sponsor of the program is the Undergraduate Athletic Council. Backfield coach John Wood will run the machine...
Throughout the first half, the Winthrop backfield, hindered by the loss of Rich Weller and Johnny Butler, was ineffective, with the whole Deacon line, notably Dave Grey, Norm Polansky, and Jerry Hall breaking in. The Kirkland backs were equally helpless against the Winthrop forward wall...
...what makes this year's Pitt team the most outstanding in the U. S. (some say it is the greatest of all time) is a mighty line-without which no back can sparkle. If Pitt's dream backfield of Goldberg, Stebbins, Cassiano and Chickerneo is rated on a par with the famed Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, Pitt's line- Daddio, Merkovsky, Lezouski, Dannies, Petro, Raskowski, Hoffman-may be favorably compared with Fordham's recent Seven Blocks of Granite, or any other publicized bulwark of the past...
Kirkland's backfield of Earl Foster, Roy Moore, Jack McClure, and Al Silverberg is the Deacon strong point. No serious injuries will hamper the Deacons, but whether their feet backs can penetrate a strong Winthrop forward wall is the question which may determine the outcome of the game...