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Fullback as Flanker...
With no shift, such as the Harvard T-to-single-wing, Princeton depends on its fullback and wingback for flanker work, with an occasional split end or doubling of the ends on one side of the line. Such a setup allows coach Charley Caldwell to throw as many as three men--and sometimes even four--into the same zone. This utilizes the strong arm of young Mr. Kazmaier to the full...
...much of its yardage by faking an end run by wingback George Sella, who would hand-off to tailback Dick Kazmaier, who in turn knifed off tackle for about five yards at a clip. If the Rutgers secondary pulled in close to meet this play, Caldwell set a flanker to the left and sent Sella on an end sweep--one which clicked for 65 yards and the tie-breaking touchdown...
...more effective." In after-dinner speeches, which he makes as offhandedly as he once handled a football, he likes to describe the best player he ever had in this department, a guard named Biter Jones. "He was terrific. In one season he bit seven guards, one center and a flanker back, and was so clever at it that he was penalized only 65 yards...
Finn, Bethelem, Pa., senior, has tossed eight touchdown passes and picked up 673 yards via the air. Chuck Nelson, halfback flanker in the Engle wing T version of the standard T formation, has been the best receiver of Finn's passes but Frank Mahoney, an end, has been valuable as a decoy when not on the receiving end of the Finn aerials...