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...addition to Lowenstein, the first string offensive backfield appears now to have West at fullback, with Captain Phil Isenberg and Dave Warden as left and right halfbacks. The reserve offensive halfbacks are Warren Wylie and Dusty Burke. Running behind West are Tom Ossuman and Jerry Blitz, Sophomores Gil O'Neil and Hardy Cox back up Lowenstein...
...these men are well drilled in tackling--as was clearly shown in the Boston University scrimmage. The pass defense showed occasional spurts of brilliance in the B. U. fray, but has petered out in practice lately. Another weakness in the defensive backfield, lack of speed, may also prove fatal this afternoon and every seven days hereafter...
...Harvard student concentrated in football rather than studies. Harold J. Moffie '50, fleet backfield star of Valpey's regime, is now an undergraduate engineering concentrator at Tufts. At Harvard the decision was between football practice or afternoon labs. "I took football," said Moffie, "and close courses other than engineering." Hence his present undergraduate status...
Moffie, however, has not completely left football or the Harvard atmosphere. He lives on Irving Street, with former teammate "Chief" Bender. Bender is coach of the Dunster football team, and Moffie is backfield coach of the Reading High School team...
Offensively, the freshmen line up with Bill McCourt and Ed Kennedy at ends, Bill Frate and Pete Simonds at tackles, Fred Horween and Dave McDowell as guards, and Bill Coolidge, center. The backfield has John King at quarterback, Dick Clasby at tailback, John Culver at full, at Warren O'Donnell at wingback...