Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Margarita, head football coach at Georgetown for the past two years, is no stranger to recent Harvard alumni, having worked as backfield coach under Dick Harlow in the 1946 and 1947 seasons...
Margarita and Josh Williams, Crimson backfield coach, are expected to arrive today to join Lloyd Jordan in spring training duties. Williams has been ill at his home for some time, and early speculation had Margarita replacing him. But Williams will definitely resume his old post, while no specific assignment has yet been fixed for the new coach...
Margarita, a former strong defensive halfback at Medford High and Brown, was at Harvard last in the 1946 and 1947 seasons when he was backfield coach under Dick Harlow. Between his college playing days and coaching at Harvard he spent a year in the service and starred for two seasons with the Chicago Bears. After leaving Cambridge, Margarita became an assistant coach at Yale in 1948, then moved on to Georgetown where he was head coach until the Hoyas dropped football last month...
...Backfield coach Josh Williams suffered a heart attack last month, and will probably not be able to assist in spring practice which begins about the middle of March...
...take much effort to imagine the Michigan team as the fruition of Art Kapey's plans here. Everything was there: the casual huddle, the initial lopsided formation, the jumping backfield shift...