Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field a burly, red-shirted figure burst into the Michigan State backfield and almost blocked a quick kick. On the sideline a rumpled, prowling man in brown slacks and unbuttoned shirt scowled and grabbed a telephone. "Who came in on that?" he demanded from an unseen watcher high in the stands over Palo Alto's Stanford Stadium. Coach Hugh Duffy Daugherty. master craftsman of the most intricate offensive in modern football, was at his appointed task of trying to keep track of every block and tackle of every player on the field...
...Harvard lacks no experience in its backfield, what with seniors Matt Botsford, Tony Gianelly, and Jim Joslin, as well as junior Walt Stahura all playing together for the first time in Coach Jordan's new A-Formation...
...this formation, in reality a T, with an overbalanced line, works out, there may not be any better backfield in the Ivy League. But Harvard fans can remember the inauspicious first game in 1954 when Harvard couldn't hold onto the ball, fumbling every time it had possession, finally losing to UMass...
...biggest unknown in the backfield is 214-pound Gianelly. He was well suited for the power play in the single wing, but whether or not he can adapt the speed necessary for the A-Formation will not be known until this afternoon...
...pointed out that the inept Bowdoin team completed 11 out of 12 passes against the Jumbos, Arlanson maintains that most of these were made against his second and third teams. "We weren't weak on pass defense last year," he claims, "and we have the same boys in the backfield again this year...