Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Nat Low collided with a member of his own backfield. In a letter to Peoples World, Sports Editor Lester Rodney of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker wrote: ". . . My friend Nat Low has in a sectarian moment gone hogwild on football ... By and large . . . it's still a fine game . . . Nat is actually exceedingly silly when he takes the high-school chants about rocking 'em and socking 'em and reads a process of blood-seeking brutalization into...
...problems. But even readers who agree with Author Clark's oversimplified concept of the Christian's duty may find some of his situations too embarrassingly cozy to stomach. Example: the preacher-hero's pep talk to a college assembly. Jesus, he assures, "is in your backfield-the greatest triple threat player the world has ever known . . . He could plunge, pass and punt, that is preach, pray and penetrate to the very heart of God ... Yes, in the final minutes of the game, beaten back to His goalline, this great Champion . . . sent the ball spiralling far into...
Pollard, a devastating fullback, would get up from the ground shaking his head. On one play, a Navy end was planted in the Army backfield just as Pollard took a handoff and was prepared to start around end. And it was Pollard, withal Army's meet Successful ground gainer, who was indirectly responsible for Navy's first touchdown. Instead of falling on an errant pitchout by Blaik, he kept trying to pick the ball up until finally Middle Captain Tom Bakke broke through and recovered the ball. It was a key play, and Pollard handled it poorly, but then army...
Francis Bagnell of Penn and Dick Kazmaier of Princeton, halfbacks, and Richard Doyne of Lehigh, quarterback, round out the backfield...
Sportswriter Bill Fay yesterday published Collier's 61st A;-American football team. In the backfield are: Vite Parilli, Kentucky, Vis Janowicz, Ohio State, Kyle Rote, S.M.U. and Leon Heath, Oklahoma. The line consists of: Bill McColl, Stanford, Dan Foldberg, Army, Holland Donan, Princeto, Jim Weatherall, Oklahoma, Ted Daffer, Tenuessee, Bud McFadin, Texas, and 'Bob McCullough, Obio State...