Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University backfield once again gave promise of unusual scoring ability by tearing off a series of long runs to bury the scrubs under the short end of a 29 to 0 count, in the fourth scrimmage of the year held yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field...
Both the quality and the quantity of the backfield material which is available for the coming football season are of such a nature as to lead Crimson supporters to hope for a successful year on the gridiron. Speed, experience, and stamina can all be found in abundance in the group of 11 men who, excluding quarterbacks, are now striving for berths in the Crimson jerseyed backfield...
Good Team B Backfield...
...well qualified as this combination seems to be, it is little if any superior to the present team B backfield, T. F. Mason '30, S. L. Batchelder '31, and J. W. Potter '30. The possibility of Coach Horween's using these two sets of backs interchangeably seems to be strong. Such systems have been tried and often found successful, as for example in Yale's championship 1922 aggregation which employed as a rule one set of backs for each half. Mason and Potter both saw a good deal of action in the 1927 season, while Batchelder starred for the undefeated...
...Stevens played for Yale in 1923 on famed "Memphis Bill" Mallory's undefeated team; before that he had played for Washburn college, in Kansas. In his senior year at Yale he was ineligible ; later, he was wont to divide his time between medical school and backfield coaching. Last year he was Jones's assistant; this year he is the youngest of the important coaches and, since in football the cart goes before the horse, not the least likely to draw his team to November triumphs...