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Word: backfields (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gold Coasters will probably start Harry Levy, Dave McElroy, Joe Donald, and Jack King in the backfield. Tom Crump and Kike Pizitz are scheduled to start at the ends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Dunster Seek Football Upsets Today Over Adams and Eliot | 10/28/1952 | See Source »

Eliot, highest scoring team in the league, will have John McNamara, Hank Greenberg, Fred Rhinelander, and Steve Kurzman in the backfield, with Bill Gray and Sumner White at the ends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Dunster Seek Football Upsets Today Over Adams and Eliot | 10/28/1952 | See Source »

...Peyton, who scored a last-minute touchdown against Winthrop Thursday, will start at right halfback for Dunster. Dave Bicks at fullback, Larry Boies at left halfback, and Jock Brophy round out the Funster backfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dudley, Dunster Seek Football Upsets Today Over Adams and Eliot | 10/28/1952 | See Source »

Sutherland had a backfield coach named Josh Williams helping him. Schmitt never realized at the time that he would join the same Williams fourteen years later to try to pull Harvard football out of the doldrums. Nor did he realize that a star performer on the Duquesne team which upset Pitt in 1936, an end named Joe Maras, would also become an associate. "That Pitt-Duquesne game was really rugged," Schmitt recalls. "Joe once told me that the morning after the game, he couldn't get out of bed." The 1936 Pitt team, despite the loss, went on to play...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: Laughs on the Line | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

...Green's defensive backfield is a muddle of inexperience. Injured veteran linebacker Mike Papantones will miss the game today, and his successor is still unamed, although either Mackey or Johnson will probably get the nod. Tom Malcolm an alert junior who missed the opening games, will be the other backer...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Veteran Green Team Has 9 Starting Lettermen, Good Potential, One Win | 10/25/1952 | See Source »

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