Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Filling out the second team backfield were Jeff Fleischmann, Cornell; Bill Roberts, Dartmouth; and Jack Davison, Princeton...
...little child shall lead them. Thirty varsity football lettermen yesterday elected Carroll Martin Lowenstein '52, of Malden and the Varsity Club, captain of the 1951 team. The backfield monopolized all the honors, for at the same time the lettermen voted to award the Frederick Greeley Crocker memorial plaque for the most valuable player to their outgoing captain, Phillip Louis Isenberg '51, of Hartford and Winthrop House...
...during his tenure at Amherst that Jordan realized the value of hiring enthusiastic assistants. His present staff includes three extremely able men, plus a first-class trainer, and his backfield coach is considered one of the smartest assistants in the country...
...Last winter, he worked out the details of his split-T formation offense, which was introduced at fall practice and used successfully up until last Saturday. The split-T involves a half back, stationed well outside the end, who becomes a man-in-motion threading his way through the backfield on practically every play. This system is well-suited to tricky reverses and laterals, for the wingback can either take a hand off from one of the other backs, fake a reverse and continue on out for a pass, or go directly out from the flank for a pass...
...step ahead of the safety. This was practical against the Tigers, who do not throw long passes, but Yale may have to modify this defense against Harvard unless it can check receivers at the line of scrimmage. The average weight of the Yale line is 186, that of the backfield, 176. The team averages 182 and has exhibited more speed than Harvard...