Word: gainers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taliback Jim Noonan, who won't see action against Dartmouth here Saturday, is pacing the Crimson offense after four games with a total of 287 yards, all but 15 of them gained through the air. Noonan was Harvard's leading ground-gainer last year with 492 yards...
Dunc Mauran, a stocky, driving full-back, was Harvard's only consistent ground-gainer and when he left the game in the third period with a bleeding mouth, the losers' only real offensive threat disappeared. Mauran was removed to Stillman and the extent of his injury could not be determined last night...
...watch in the Army backfield this afternoon are Jim Cain, Vic Pollock, an do course Arnold Galiffa. Cain is the Cadet's fastest runner and leading ground gainer, with an impressive 147 yards in three games. Top yards-pertly man is Pollock with an average of 8.4 in 15 tries. Galiffa, quarterback in the Army T, usually relegates the running game to his associates and concentrates on baffling the backer ups and throwing passes...
McCabe's most successful ground-gainer last season, Dune Mauran, will be at fullback again this year and will probably carry much of the load. Hugh Edmends, a former varsity man, is quarterbacking along with Lee Pernice; Joe Broide and Bob Wiley are the first two wingbacks; Sing Dolan, Dusty Burke, and Dudley Celton the tailbacks. Dolan is out with a leg injury and won't be able to open the season against Army here Saturday morning...
...dollar loss. Possible outcome: the three powers would learn that the tutelage of Germany required foresight and cohesion, that the job could never be done by high commissioners pulled this way and that by narrow considerations of advantage to their nations. If that lesson was not learned, the only gainer from the Bonn experiment would be the absent Russian General Chuikov...