Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Innumerable Eliot threats were nipped by fumbles or interceptions, and finally. Branford's ground game began to click. Quarterback John Ashcroft, who led the drives, plunged over from the three-yard line for the score after being hit in his own backfield. Halfback Doc Marshall slanted off tackle for the crucial two-point conversion and Topkins' last minute passes proved useless...
...talked a good deal more about injury than has Harvard, but the list is a good deal shorter. By last night it had dwindled to one, second string halfback Dick Berk. Noted primarily for his speed, Berk's loss is not considered terribly damaging to coach John Pont's backfield...
Freshman football coach Henry Lamar, who is more than reserved in the praise of his teams, has admitted that this year's squad "has played some good ball." In a rare burst of what he might call specifics, Lamar added, "They've shown some strength in the backfield and in the line...
...sidedness of the final score is misleading, for in the second half the Crimson's backfield moved the ball well when it had possession...
...will be missing the services of one of their most effective backs, Leo Swift. Swift was injured last week against Penn. Aside from Swift's absence, the starting backfield remains intact. John McCluskie, who has been the team's offensive spark-plug, will start at quarterback with George Nevill and James Halpern at the half-back slots. Askold Kohimann will be at fullback...