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...also gained a first-team position. The team's leading scorer was named to the offensive backfield on the All-Ivy team. Poe and Diamond were chosen for first-team positions on the All-Ivy team...
John McCluskey led the Crimson backfield on an 81-yard drive--all on the ground--that culminated in Bobby Leo' four yard sprint around right end for a score. The Crimson's smooth defensetook advantage of Eli quarterback Watts Humphrey's desperate attempts to bring Yale back into the game to produce thes econd score...
Against Brown, it was the straight T formation with no backfield flankers. The formation only produced three points but that was good enough for a Yale win. Against Penn, the Elis unveiled the double wing, which had moderate success against both the Quakers and Princeton...
When Yale head football coach John Pont left New Haven for the more fertile fields of Big Ten football, the Yale Athletic Association did not have to look far for a successor. Within three weeks, backfield coach Carmen Cozza, a long time friend and associate of Pont, was named to the post...
...double wing, Yale likes to specialize in counter plays such as the scissors and the inside reverse, where a halfback ends up going against the flow of the defense. The holes in the line have usually been there, but the lack of speed in the Yale backfield has resulted in relatively short gains...