Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jerry Ralph, Bill Wilson, and Roger Robbins each scored twice for Jonathan Edwards and Bill Swett scored once. Swett stole the ball in the Dudley backfield and ran 30 yards for his score. George Donovan scored the Dudley touchdown on a 15-yard off-tackle smash in the first period...
They call Harold Williams "Josh" with good reason. The varsity backfield coach, like his line confrere, Ted Schmitt, is a firm devotee of the kidding technique as an aid to coaching...
Eliot and Leverett will battle it out for the House football championship this afternoon in what amounts to a miniature Crimson Bowl. The entire Wintergreen starting backfield will be in action for Eliot and four Rinehart ball-carriers will play for Leverett...
...there, they have to send alumni out to find men because they can't say 'athletic scholarship,' and down here we can send coaches out to get players. We see to it that we wind up with two good guards and a big line, in addition to a good backfield. But alumni send in flashy backs and big ends, mostly, for the football team. So in the end, we wind up with a better balanced, more solid team. That's the only difference. . . . That's why I don't like those newspapers calling us pro's and them amateurs...
Harvard, whose average is 26 points per game, is conceded a big edge on the ground. With Gil O'Neil calling and John Culver, Dick Clasby, and John Ederer carrying, the Crimson backfield ranks with the best in the East...