Word: guard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dick Harlow was especially anxious to move Wilson to guard as soon as possible because of his down-the-field blocking experience gained in the backfield, not because there has been any marked weakness at left guard. Joe Nee has proven himself in every department of the game and will probably alternate with rather than substitute for Wilson...
With Tim Russell's arrival to the squad in the full capacity of able-bodied center, the Varsity's Jack-of-all-Trades, Cliff Wilson, was moved from center to left guard yesterday afternoon. This is the position to which he was originally moved at the start of the season from his last fall's post of blocking back, but with Russell's injury in a pre-season game, he stepped one place to the right to fill...
...team, with the exception of Wilson and Macdonald, were excused from practice yesterday afternoon. Wilson reported to brush up on his guard assignments and Macdonald spent a large part of the practice in an intensive punting drill...
...took the ball on its own 35-yd. line, and in ten plays scored a touchdown. That flight was also a sample of the afternoon's play. It began with a 33-yd. forward pass, followed by a forward from Quarterback Sims to End Jordan who lateraled to Guard Wilcox for a first down on the 18-yd. line. Before the afternoon was out Georgia Tech had completed eleven passes, many of them breath-taking forward-laterals and lateral-forwards, for gains averaging over 15 yards apiece. The score seesawed, between brilliant running and dazzling passing: Duke leading...
Bowl Man. (William) Wallace Wade, whose teams have appeared in the Rose Bowl three times (more often than any other Southern coach), had been there once before his visit in 1926. That was on New Year's Day 1916. as a guard on Brown's great "Pollard team''-so-called for All-America Negro Halfback Frederick ("Fritz") Pollard-which inaugurated the Tournament of Roses' annual U. S. "championship" by losing to Washington State, 0-to-14. In 1917 when Footballer Wade graduated and returned home to his father's farm at Trenton, Tenn...