Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today's practice will be the final stiff workout before the men start tapering off for the opening game, only a light drill being on tap for tomorrow and a short signal drill filling the bill on Friday. With the line practically picked only the four backfield positions remain to be filled. Definite announcement of the eleven starting players will be made tomorrow...
...will arrive here on Friday morning and will take a short drill on the Stadium turf in the afternoon. That the team from Maine will be no setup is shown by the fact that their forward wall, led by 218-pound Harris Howe, giant tackle, averages 188 pounds. Their backfield however is extremely light, averaging only 155 per man. This is mainly due to the fact that Borstein, diminutive little quarter-back, weighs only 119 pounds...
With the perplexing problem of picking his backfield combinations pre-eminent, Coach Horween sent his forces through a long scrimmage against the scrubs yesterday afternoon. Two more workouts of similar nature are scheduled, one today and another tomorrow...
Throughout yesterday's workout, various backfields were sent into action while the coaches attempted to get a more definite line on the prospective Harvard ball carriers. The first quartet to take the field was composed of Charles Devens, T. W. Gilligan, and Harper, with Wood as signal-caller. Mason, Mays, and hotter respectively were then sent in as substitutes for the first of these three. Two more combinations, on which most of the other candidates working out under backfield Coach Casey played, were also sent into action, but so bewildering was the series of substitutions that no definite information could...
Coach Horween is still following his policy of shifting his backfield men around, trying out all combinations possible. There will be a scrimmage today between the first and second University squads...