Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record, the Tigers' nine touchdowns and nine conversions amounted to the highest number of points scored against a Crimson eleven in 77 years of intercollegiate competition. Had Coach Charlie Caldwell played his first backfield say more than 14 minutes the score might have been 112 points...
Employing a fast line instilled with the rudiments of single wing shoulder blocking, Caldwell has been able to open gaping holes in every defense he has encountered. But the key to the success of the Princeton single wing has been a backfield possessing a blocking quarterback (George Chandler), a triple threat tailback (Dick Kazmaier), a shifty fullback (Jack Davison), and a pair of breakaway wingbacks in Bill Kleineasser and Bob Unger...
Installation of the single-wing has forced Yardling Coach Henry Lamar to realign his starting backfield completely. Only Captain Dick Clasby, at tailback, is in his usual spot. John Tulenko, a fast tailback, has been moved to wingback, while ex-wingback Warren O'Donnell will start at fullback. Quarterback Tony Caimi began the season at guard, but his blocking ability has own him a backfield post...
Coming out of its two-week layoff with a new offense and a scrambled backfield, the freshman football team will start the second half of its six-game schedule this afternoon against an up and down Brown eleven at Providence. The freshmen have won once and lost twice so far this year...
...backfield is Dick Kazmaier, the 168-pound tailback who was the Ivy League leader in total individual ground gaining last season. He is currently second to Penn's Red Bagnell in that department, which can be attributed partly to Princeton's more balanced attack. Kazmaier, shifty runner and a very good passer, is remembered locally for the part he played in Princeton's 49 to 14 victory at the Stadium last year...