Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school he was something of a dude, and a natural standout in every sport he tried. In baseball he was an outstanding pitcher and outfielder, played against local coal miners' teams. In football he was a fast backfield star (a "scat back" according to Snead). He was on the track team and he boxed. He found little time for books...
Over 175 candidates turned out on Monday afternoon for Coach Cambells first practice. By the Andover game the squad had been pruned to three teams and a number of stars began to twinkle ever so faintly: French (later captain), Putnam, Cunningham, and McGehee in the backfield; O Connell, Harrison, Wolfe, Churchill, Parkinson, Robinson, and Prior from...
Controversy reached a high point with the column of W. O. McGeehan in the Boston Globe. He wrote to the effect that given a chance the graduates and undergraduates of Harvard would gladly trade President Lowell, President Emeritus Eliot, and three heads of departments for a good running backfield and no questions asked...
...eventually his moment comes. An assistant director with a voice like a backfield coach bawls: "Keep it quiet now, boys. Quiet. Quiet, if you please!" A gong bangs with doomlike clangor. A horrid silence falls. "Speed," mutters the man in the bucket seat of the huge Mitchell camera, peering through its eyepieces as if appalled. Then, while the 50 hairy ones look on in a sort of belligerent despair, while the tourists stand on tiptoes, while the director and servitors of the camera lean close enough to breathe on him, the actor kneels beside a chaise longue in the awful...
...backfield will be led by outstanding scrum-half Frank Lombardi, president of the University Rugby Club and vice-president of the Eastern Union. Vying for positions in the backfield are veterans Jack MacRae, Jack Dormand, Robert Albert, Ted Carey, and Claud Hooton...