Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will send crate to pack Reader Funari back to Italy...
...Somewhere in the back of his greying head, the President kept his plans for making the momentously planned Wage and Hour Division into an efficient U. S. agency. First on his docket was the shift of Administrator Elmer Andrews to a less harassing post; second probability was his replacement by a New Deal trouble-shooter with an honest passion for anonymity: Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, Army engineer, onetime West Point athletics chief. Lieutenant-Colonel Fleming, slight, bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer...
Undoubtedly, the Indiana will rely on their air attack more this year than in the past. On the squad is the basis of a sound aerial offensive. The backs are, for the most part, too light for duty against some of the beef Dartmouth will run up against during the 1939 schedule. The ground attack that was the basis of the 22 game undefeated struck broken at Cornell last fall, must take a back seat during...
This leaves as probable starters Goldthwaite, at blocking back, where he showed to advantage against Exeter, Loring at wingback in place of Lyle, Whittier probably at bucking back, and, it is hoped, McNicol at tailback. McNicol has progressed rapidly and is the outstanding prospect after the first three weeks...
...team line, the switch of Ted Lyman, last year's Freshman captain, from blocking back to center has bolstered the center position considerably. Lyman and Grover alternated in the scrimmage. Ayres' 60-minute play convinced Harlow that he would need more reserve material to case the burden on his pivotman. It is possible that if Lyman shows substantial improvement, he will seriously threaten Ayres' possession of the center post...