Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interest at Princeton seems to center now on the freshman squad. The eleven averages 165 pounds. The line averages 178 pounds, the backfield 157. The outlook on the whole appears to be the best in several years...
Those men who reported yesterday were drilled in fundamentals under the direction of G. D. Flynn '19. For a portion of the time a semblance of real football was introduced by a drill in simple formations by the backfield candidates...
...good football man plays well at the game of life. There are few shirkers among the line and backfield. There are no cowards. So very many have gone that only the barest semblance of a team may be organized. That speaks well for the value of football as a training...
...backfield, W. F. Robinson '18, quarter, is at Plattsburgh. E. L. Casey, '19, left halfback, is on a patrol boat in the United States Naval Reserve. T. C. Thacher, Jr., '18, right halfback, is at Plattsburgh. R. Horween '18, fullback, is doing patrol work with the U. S. Naval Reserves...
...whole hour yesterday was given over to practice in passing and shooting. Coach Winsor sent the forwards down singly, in pains, and finally in fours against the defence, skating the whole length of the rink to get up speed. In the backfield, T. H. Eckfeldt '17 worked out with Captain Morgan in place of H. K. White '19. The backs were given some special practice yesterday in taking the puck out from behind the goal, with the forwards working to keep them from getting started on a rush of this kind...