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...formations yesterday and will concentrate on polishing them up in the next three afternoons. The varsity scrimmaged with Bob Margarita's freshmen both offensively and defensively. Bob Hardy and Art French, former injury victims, returned to action. Dusty Burke, Gli O'Neil, John Tulonko, and Jerry Blitz formed the backfield in the offensive scrimmage...
Instead of having Kazmaier's run-pass play develop from a balanced line, Caldwell overshifted (i.e., unbalanced) his line and put one backfield man as a flanker on the weak side. This shift put "an almost intolerable burden on the secondary defense unless Cornell changed to a five-man line," Caldwell explains. But when Cornell did switch to a five-man line, Kazmaier, instead of passing, ran right through...
Crimson coaches Tom Calhoun and Brad Lundborg thought the bad weather had been a lucky break for the Crimson ruggers. Because of the mud and the slippery ball, McGill's fast backfield lost it's potential advantage over the Crimson backs...
What applies to the backfield applies equally to the beefy Closed line, which is as deep as it is talented. The Leverett Bunnies supplied most of the light side of Closed's nominal starting offensive line. Booming tackles Gus Palacios and Lee Segal, a rough guard, were formerly mainstays of the Leverett powerhouse. Another Bunny, bearded Dick Farrington, will probably get a defensive tackle's post...
Behind this quartet, Hyde plans to use another backfield which relies a little more on driving power. Fullbacks Art Levy and John "Bangin'" Tangen, at left half are both runners who should go well on trap plays up the middle. This is also true of right half Frank Hernberg. Clever Bob Whoriskey quarterbacks the second backfield...