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WHERE MUNRO IS going to find halfbacks has to be one of his biggest worries as he puts his squad through double workout sessions this week. "We need a good strong center half," he said Thursday, "and we'll probably have to make some halfbacks out of some fullbacks." Starting left fullback Ric LaCivita has already gone this route, and appears to be the only one with a halfback spot tied down...
Moving back to defense the picture, fortunately, is not nearly so grim. All-Ivy Ric Scott has graduated and, continuing a tradition started last year by All-American fullback Cris Wilmot, has stayed on as an assistant coach. The other two positions, however, will be capably filled by returning starter Brian Fearnett and Lawsun Wulsin, who began to see a lot of playing time at the end of last season. Steve Mead will be fighting Wulsin for a starting position in the three-man defense Munro has tentatively decided to employ in this year's 4-3-3 alignment...
...pounds, fast and tough. He was touted as a future college star, even a professional. But Walker never grew, and other athletes, though not as tough, became bigger and faster, and Walker began to get injured when he tried to run over defenders. He was still the best fullback in a tough spot, but the talk of a pro career died away. Eventually, another black running back that does have a shot at the pros moved into the township and Walker began blocking for him. Walker's star had burnt out; momentum alone kept him going...
...once been. When the end came, he was running, which was what he had always done. But his thighs had grown thick in the two years since his last season. They no longer pumped like powerful black pistons as they had back in 1970, when Walker was the best fullback in Delaware County. That early Sunday morning, when the stakes seemed greater than ever before, his legs betrayed him, getting in each other's way as they strained against the seams of pants grown tight...
Last fall Sophomore Jay Bennett, a fullback on Harvard's football team, read that a professional player was "so mean that he ate glass." After a few drinks at a party, Bennett set out to prove that eating glass had nothing to do with meanness. He unscrewed the bulb from a nearby lamp and ate it. The kooky stunt so pleased him and his audience that Bennett, 21, has since consumed a dozen bulbs. He has also set off-the campus' most bizarre craze since Lothrop Withington Jr. swallowed a live goldfish at the Freshman Union...