Word: halfback
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DIED. Clifford Battles, 70, National Football League Hall of Famer who gained a total of 3,542 yds. in his six seasons (1932-38) as a halfback for the Boston Braves (later called the Boston Redskins, then the Washington Redskins) and who, in his team's divisional championship season of 1936, showed remarkable versatility by rushing 176 times for 614 yds., completing 18 passes for 242 yds., catching six passes for 103 yds. and scoring 42 points on six touchdowns; of heart disease; in Clearwater...
...second half-after football halfback Paul Scheper had thrown up a weak Bermuda Shoot attempt--things picked up a bit. After the first six minutes, when Dartmouth managed to pull to within two, at 24-22, the Crimson--or more specifically, Harris--turned on the juice...
...little easier. Pierce, who is best known for his work in labor law, is the Cabinet's only black so far. An Eastern Establishment Republican, the son of a prosperous dry cleaner and real estate man in the New York suburb of Glen Cove, Pierce was a star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa graduate at Cornell, where he also earned his law degree in 1949. He then began building a long string of firsts, such as the highest-ranking black (as an assistant to an Under Secretary of Labor) in the Eisenhower Administration and the first black partner...
...slightly tarnished the record of a consistent and occasionally outstanding rushing team. Fullback Jim Callinan, the talented Ohioan who, when not injured, proved himself to be one the best backs in the league, topped 90 yds. three times this season en route to his team-leading 461 yds. And halfback Tom Beatrice, the backfield's reliable workhorse, had 435 yds. for the season...
Dogged by injuried his entire career and plagued by fumbles, senior halfback Paul Connors never realized his brilliant potential he displayed as a freshman. But juniors Jim Acheson and Paul Scheper (out most of the year with a bad knee) and sophomore Scott McCabe showed that the backfield should continue to be a Harvard strength...