Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard came out of football practice last spring with a depth chart of sixteen lettermen, five other former varsity replacements, nine promising freshmen, and a half-dozen former jayvees. The line, and particularly defensive play, was woakened by graduation. The backfield is lighter and faster than a year ago, with promising sophomores Dick Clasby (behind Captain Carroll Lowenstein at tailback) and John Tulenko adding a little badly-needed speed...
...Moffie, swift Crimson football star of two years ago, has been appointed backfield coach of the Brandeis University eleven, it was learned yesterday...
...last outstandingly fast man in a Harvard backfield, Moffie has been named an assistant to Brandeis head coach Bennie Friedman, former Michigan All-American. Since his graduation in 1950 he has coached football at Reading (Mass.) High and is currently studying engineering at Tufts...
...time it was speculated that Margarita was slated to replace backfield coach Josh Williams, who was suffering from a heart ailment. But Williams has since recovered and returned to his job, giving the College a seven-man staff consisting of Jordan, Margarita, Lamar, Williams, line coach Ted Schmitt, end coach Joe Maras, and jayvee coach Norm Shepard...
When Dick Harlow resigned and Art Valpey came in in 1948, Margarita moved on to join Herman Hickman in the latter's freshman year at Yale-once again as a backfield coach. While at New Haven he got a break from his close friend Jack Haggerty. Haggerty had just been appointed athletic director at Georgetown and asked Margarita to come along as head coach. Margarita...