Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long as the line was solid he backfield had time to get the elusive plays in operation. The trouble with Harvard this season was that the line was not strong enough to protect the backfield till it got under way; in consequence the opposing players got through and stripped Harvard's secret plays of all their mystery. . . . . It is a surprising feature of this gridiron season to see the Crimson down to sixth place in the ranking of the teams...
...fourth position leaves much room for argument. Obviously a line-plunger is needed in this speedy backfield. Neville, Horween, Thomas, and Jacques are the foremost possibilities. Horween proved last Saturday that his clambering type of line attack is a flat failure against a heavy team...
...Cadets will start a team containing five of the men who played last year among whom will be the former Dartmouth captain, Snow and Hadley, offense, and Tufts, in the backfield. Ross will again be at quarterback and Kowall and Gannon in the line. G. L. Williams OcC who was a member of the second team this fall, will be the only undergraduate on the Cadets' team...
...backfield problem is just as serious. Eddy, Ames, Thomas, Brown, Driggs and Tibbott, have all played their last game for Princeton and have left no good substitutes. Haaren, of this year's squad, is a possible quarterback, as is Strubing, captain of the 1920 team. F. Moore, N. C. Nourse, Georgi, Boone and Trimble will all be given a chance in the backfield, but all of these men were on the freshman team and have had experience in big college football games...
...backfield combination of E. L. Casey '19, R. Horween '18 and T. C. Thacher '18 as field general, is the strongest the University has played this year. Thacher, as defensive back, has an able substitute in R. H. Bond '19; H. C. Flower '19's running is inferior only to that of Casey, whose place he is ready to fill; and H. W. Minot '17 is expected to punt up to his good standard should he be sent in for Horween...