Word: finney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leading the league in total offense is Brown quarterback Frank Finney, 122 yards ahead of Cornell's ace, Tom Sky-peck. Finney completed his final season with 852 yards on 162 plays. The two quarterbacks are also in a dog-fight for passing honors, with Finney 122 yards ahead...
...first team included: Norman Juvonen (E), Cornell; Barney Berlinger (E), Penn; Robert Shaunessy (T), Harvard; Edward Savitsky (T), Cornell; and Alvin Krutsch (G), Dartmouth; Joseph DeDeo (G), Princeton; Donald Warburton (C), Brown; Frank Finney (QB), Brown; John Crouthamel (HB), Dartmouth; John Heyd (HB), Princeton; and Paul Choquette (FB), Brown...
...choice for first team quarterback was apparently very close between Finney and Cornell's Tom Skypeck. Finney played a brilliant game against Harvard this season, completing 12 out of 20 passes, and scoring three touchdowns...
...Despite Finney's outstanding show, the Crimson backfield turned in some excellent performances of its own. Halfback Larry Repsher showed fine speed and drive, and Chet Boulris returned to form, using his shiftiness and a neat sense of timing to register some long and important gains...
...bulled through left tackle, was tripped, but staggered and recovered. Then, racing down the left sideline, he picked up two key blocks on about the Harvard 35 and continued all the way, with Repsher speeding alongside and cutting down Brown's John McTigue at the last moment.CRIMSONHarry S. ParkerFRANK FINNEY (18) brings down LARRY REPSHER (14) on the Brown five-yard line in the last minutes of the third quarter...