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Backfield veterans from former seasons include Ray Ball, Bobby Sullivan, Alex Wizbicki, and Joe McAfee. Ball is a devastating blocking back, a short stubby character weighing more than 200 pounds despite his five-foot-seven-inch stature, reputed as an outstanding blocker and backer-up. Sullivan, fullback of the 1942 eleven which crushed Boston College, 55 to 12, in the famous game that preceded the Cocoanut Grove disaster, shares honors at the bucking spot with Veto Kissel, of last year's Crusader eleven...
Comparisons, with the Battles of Britain and Midway were overblown. Said Robert Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air: "No one ought to get too excited-it's only one round of a continuing battle. lt was like a football coach's dream, in which every blocker takes out his man and the ball carrier crosses the line standing up. . . . Mass air attack by a team, that's what did the trick. The lesson is that if you use air power properly you get dividends...
Directing the team is Captain and quarterback George Ceithaml, who is a canny play-caller and rugged blocker like his predecessor, Forrest Evashevski...
...fast, hard-hitting fullback, Al Cameron, and an able 202 pound blocker, Johnny Harrell, fill out the Navy "A" backfield. They don't have a first and second string team, instead designating the two (or three) teams by letters and names...
Another absentee yesterday was second string blocking back Ted Lyman, who was bumped on the leg in Tuesday's scrimmage. There is no statement forthcoming from the doctors as to how serious Lyman's injury is, but third string blocker Davy Goldthwait saw a good deal of action on the first team yesterday, which might indicate that Harlow was planning to use him considerably against the Ithacans...