Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Horween intends to give his squad two more hard tests against the Seconds this week on Wednesday and on Friday. He intimated that he would switch his backfield several times during the week in order to give all the men a chance behind the team A line...
...skull in an automobile accident during the summer. At Annapolis was Johnny Gannon who helped the Navy tie Michigan last year. Discarding the huddle system, Columbia rehearsed two crack, barking quarterbacks, Liflander and Joyce. Princeton's fleet Eddie Wittmer turned up, sole survivor of a first-string backfield otherwise dispersed by graduation. At Stanford, giant Center Walter Heinecke reported, despite poor health which may keep him on the bench. Charlie ("Foots") Clements, Alabama tackle, seemed to be wearing bigger shoes than ever. Husky after a summer job as highway policeman, Fullback Harold Rebholz returned to Wisconsin. Harvard welcomed...
...Wood '32, are suffering from muscle bruises, there were only three teams in the scrimmages yesterday but all the linemen had a few minutes of play. In addition to Wood and Devens on the incapacitated list. F. J. Gilligan '32 and T. W. Gilligan '31, who are also backfield candidates, have been out of the game for several days but all these men are expected to return by Monday...
Although no passes have been used so far there has been constant practice on this department of the game. Every backfield candidate has been given a thorough drill on forward and lateral passes, while every prospective punter, drop-kicker, and kickoff man has been working steadily under V. P. Kennard...
...recent years. The only weak point in his performances was to be found in his snapping back which gradually improved as the season wore on. This fault was quite natural inasmuch as last season was Ticknor's first attempt at snapping back. His previous experience has been in the backfield a position from which he captained his Freshman eleven. It was his outstanding ability at backing up the line defensively that led the coaches last fall to believe that he would make a good center and their judgment was soon justified. Ticknor stands 6 feet two and weighs 185 pounds...