Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumors current in Boston newspapers yesterday to the effect that E. L. Casey '19 would become University backfield coach next fall and that C. J. Hubbard Jr. '24 would be transferred from his position as coach of the tackles to that of line coach received no definite confirmation last night from W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics. According to Mr. Bingham, the choice and appointment of the football coaching staff lies entirely with Coach Arnold Horween '21, and final substantiation of any report must await his arrival in Boston about the middle of next month...
...Bingham has sufficiently demonstrated his confidence in Coach Arnold Horween to make it clear that he will hardly interfere in such an important matter as the choice of the latter's assistants next season. He now emphatically states that, in the last analysis, the selection of line, backfield, and other coaches will be left as usual to the judgement of the head coach...
...lists, and boldly pick Yale, though there is every reason why Princeton should win. This is a great test of my power. If I win, there will be considerable justification in the word that is going the rounds that Joe Forecast's support is worth more than a good backfield. And here are the scores...
Outstanding players will be seen in action on both sides. For Harvard E. A Mays, Captain W. B. Wood, and F. J. Gilligan have been consistent backfield performers all season...
...Crimson seconds have had a season of varied successes to date, not mid of occasional flashes of brilliance. The backfield has developed a well organized passing and running attack which reached its highest efficiency last Monday when it gave the Abbington eleven its first defeat in years. The Inc which proved unstable against the 1932 attack, has improved materially a his week, and is expected to furnish a galwart opposition to the charges of the Bruin this afternoon. HARVARD SECONDS BROWN 1932 Bemminger, l.e. r.e., Sawyer Dwinell, l.t. r.t., Ferrebee Stearns, l.g. r.g., Pollock Warner, c. c., Coffin Brown...