Word: backfieldful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring practice showed the backfield candidates up to advantage, and next year's ball-carrying unit will be at least the equal of last fall's eleven. Chip Gannon, he of runs to the left, made ground every time he took the ball, and there is little doubt that he will be starting wingback come the fall. Freshmen Jim Kenary and Hal Moffle looked to be the best of the tailbacks although plenty of other talent turned up at this position...
...Margarita, Harlow's backfield assistant, put his men through a passing drill early in the afternoon, with Bill Henry and Frank Miklos shining on the throwing end, and Harry Jacunski worked with his end squad, including such lights as George Hauptfuhrer and last fall's Junior Varsity star, Bill Fitz...
...absence, Freshman coach Henry Lamar and line coach Hal Kopf bellowed the orders of the day, while sharing the authority were Chief Boston, Harry Jacunski, and Bob Margarita, Jayvee, end, and backfield mentors respectively...
Present from last year's Varsity were backfield flash Chip Gannon, second-string center Chuck Glynn, and end John Fiorentino, while heading the list of former Freshmen were last fall's guard and captain Dick Guidera and back Hal Moffie. Following by two days Saturday's heated court battle at the Arena, Bill Brady was running through plays with the backfield candidates...
...book & lyrics by George Marion Jr., music by Sammy Fain, produced by William Cahn) proclaims openly what many football coaches may have secretly suspected: that Notre Dame football teams are divinely guided. The proof: God sends down an angel to play in an otherwise all-too-human Notre Dame backfield. Then matters get ungodly involved. Just before the big Army game, the angel (Warde Donovan) falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter (Betty Jane Watson), is sternly ordered home. But at the last minute Heaven relents. The angel is made man for keeps, gets his girl and, what...