Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Coolidge '17, J. C. Harris '17, R. Horween '18, W. F. Robinson '18, and Moseley Taylor '18. Two more experienced football players who will be candidates for the 1916 team will be G. C. Caner '17 and W. Willcox, Jr., '17. The Freshman team will furnish some promising backfield material in H. C. Flower '19 and E. L. Casey '19. There is also a wealth of less experienced material from the second-string University and from the Freshman team, which may be developed by coaching...
...sume complete charge of the University team. It is therefore probable that Leary will act as field coach. Brickley has signed a contract to return to coach the Johns Hopkins eleven next season, but the University athletic authorities hope that his services may yet be secured for the University backfield next season. As yet no contracts with the H. A. A. have been signed by any of these men and final arrangements will probably not be made for several days...
...Hoskins, Princeton '17, of Beirut, Syria, has been elected captain of the Princeton soccer team for 1916. For the past two years, Hoskins has been the mainstay of the backfield, his game at center-half this year particularly being of high order...
...play, and gives him a chance to cut down the interference and to hurry the play. The thrust is diagonal rather than direct. Even on plays through the line the defence is thus enabled to avoid being smothered. The same general principle applies in attack. With a quick-starting backfield that is coming in standing up, it is not necessary to rub your opponent in the dirt. A quick thrust to throw him out of the play and leave the offensive forward free to go through to the secondary is the sound method...
...demands of the modern game is more for speed, speed in the backfield, speed at the ends, speed even in the line. But this is not the kind of speed that has been worshipped too often in the past. It means quick starting, quick turning, a quick choosing of the opening that promises extra yardage, the ability to keep one's feet in a broken field, and always to think at least two yards ahead of one's feet. A ten-second man is useful if he can be taught these other things, but a ten-second...