Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibit, which opened Wednesday afternoon, is composed of programs, mementos, and newspaper stories of former Yale-Harvard games, many of them dating back to the turn of the century and before...
...Blue gridiron camp minimizes the threat presented by Harvard's climax runner, Captain Torbie Macdonald. The fleet Crimson back was once the greatest Worry Yale coaches had, but they reason that his effectiveness is liable to be lessened greatly by a long layoff...
That, however, is but one of several possible backfield arrangements, because all of the boys are equally well at home in at least two different places. Bucker Bill Brown and quarter back Hank Vander Eb are two more good replacements so the Harvard backfield juggling this week is not a sign of weakness but one of the mystery. It does not seem possible that the continual pressure which these eight men will be able to maintain on a rather tired Eli eleven can be denied throughout 60 minutes of bruising football...
Number one is short shock headed, and a Senior. He looks like a pouter pigeon in his football uniform. For two years he plugged away on the Jayvees as blocking back and guard, and got his chance on the Varsity this fall. After the Penn game Dick Harlow said, "He was out manned. I thought the Penn guards would ride him into the Charles River...
...back up his statement Chase referred to John Stetson Barry's "The History of Massachusetts--The Colonial Period," from which he selected the following extract...