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...Timothy Dwight-Silliman 14-0, while Winthrop coasted past Trumbull-Saybrook, 13-0. 'Throp signal caller Charlie Slack helped put the game out of reach with a 1-yd, quarterback sneak and 20-yd, pass to Tony Hatch, leaving his position while members of the defense tried out the backfield for themselves. Just to make it clear that the game was for fun, the team did a post-game workout of intensive mudsliding...
Callinan's partners in the backfield, halfback Jim Acheson and flanker Steve Bianucci, are both sidelined with injuries today and will probably not play. Jim Garvey--Harvard's fourth-leading ball carrier this year with 73 yards--will fill in at flanker, and Scotty McCabe should sub for Acheson, who has been bothered by a bad shoulder all year...
Shoulder to shoulder they stood, at play as well as at work. This was an era before specialization, the era of the athletic swingman. Athletes who had played three different sports in three seasons in high school just continued the pattern in college. Bob's backfield mate on the freshman football team--John Simourian--was his backcourt mate on the basketball team, and his fellow infielder in the spring...
...time, there would never be a need for late fourth-quarter drives. Ron Cuccia, under fire from some quarters in recent weeks, had his finest 30 minutes at the Crimson helm, completing four of six passes for 99 yards, running for 71 more, and guiding his full-house backfield of Acheson, Jim (88 yards on 21 carries) Callinan and Steve Bianucci to touchdown drives of 90 and 84 yards...
...Green stayed within nominal striking distance of the Elis, besting Columbia in New York, 21-7. Halfback Sean Maher took over when the brisk Manhattan winds made passing infeasible, crunching the line for 131 Dartmouth yards in 24 carries, while backfield mate Peter Lavery added 91 more...