Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...backfield alignment is the same, with Tom Ossman at fullback, Gil O'Neil at quarterback. Clasby at tailback, and Ederer on the wing. (The two halfbacks change positions when the Crimson lines up in a single wing to the left.) Ederer, a fast runner, is also an above-average left-handed passer, who will be a threat today in the Crimson's familiar reverse wingback pass play...
...Crimson squad this year has plenty of weight, but still needs more speed. Its biggest asset is a heavy backfield with stars Dick Salisbury from Cambridge. England, Pierre Le Landais from France. Gordon Hutchinson from Scotland, John Cotter, and Sam Adams and Sam Butler, who are both old varsity football players. Should all these men be able to make the Yale trip, the squad stands a good chance of victory against the Elis...
Yale ruggers in the past have mostly been football players. Carrying on in this tradition is varsity star Ed Senay, who will play backfield. Eli captain will he Frank Mueller, and two more stars on his team will be Pete Harrison and Don Irwin. Irwin is a former Argentine International, and it was mainly his fine looking that helped the Elis top the Brenda Rugby League last Easter...
John Ederer ran in the wingback position in the dummy scrimmage, in a backfield with Dick Clasby, Tom Ossman, and Gil O'Neil. Two other backfields also ran yesterday, with Dusty Burke and John McNamara as tailbacks, Jerry Blits and Bob Ray as fullbacks, Bill Healy and Brain Reynolds as wingbacks, and Bill Monteith and the newly repaired Hardy Cox as quarterbacks...
Later the jayvees ran Brown plays against the first varsity defense, which had a backfield of Reynolds, Burke, Healy, Red Lewis, and Bainy Frothingham...