Word: berthed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...game last year is just at capable now as then and will be a considerable help if he is able to play. Tony Geniawicz, the catapult in the Green backfield will probably see service also. He has been shifted from the bucking back position to a halfback berth this last week. Joe Kiernan the sophomore fullback who scored two touchdowns last week will carry out the second string bucking back assignment...
Burton's promotion to a permanent berth on "A" team removes Bill Lane, who was in the line at the opening of both the Bates and Brown games. The left side of the Varsity's frontier came in for a good deal of criticism after the encounter with the Bruins, because in the first two periods the boys from Providence found the combination necessary to open the way for several plays in a row through that general sector...
...Fraad, who was a guard on the Bruin club of two years ago, will hold down one tackle berth and either Gus Olsen or Dick Batchelder will play the other tackle...
...fact the only man who seems fairly certain of a permanent berth on the "A" team firing line is Henry Adlis. Adlis is one of the brighter prospects from Cliff Gallagher's 1933 Freshman outfit and is the only 200-pounder on the team despite his 17 years. Weight, it might be added, is at a premium right now on Soldiers Field. Adam Walsh, new line coach this fall, may reach down into his years of experience at Notre Dame and Yale and find an inspiration that will help to whip together a fighting, charging line, but trainer Eddie Farrell...
Another problem confronts the mentors in the pivot position and at present Dan Comfort, Frank Casale and Bobby Jones, a Freshman last year are fighting it out for the first-string berth. With the loss from the guard squad of Gundlach and Paul Van Cleve, who was forced to return to his home in Montana, Casale moved over and took up his duties there but he is still nominally a candidate for center...