Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only other substitute who is likely to get into the game is Freeman, the halfback who has splendid speed and fairly good defensive powers...
Camp, the only son of Yale's athletic adviser, has developed as a punter and halfback within the past month. He kicks a long spiral ball which is difficult to handle. In the Princeton game, his kicks averaged almost 30 yards. He gets off his punts quickly and with good direction. He is also Yale's mainstay in end plays in which he runs well and is difficult to tackle on account of his height and has a knack in turning when tackled and falling forward his full length...
...would have been much better developed for his position had he not been behind in his studies, thereby losing the training of the greater portion of the season. He is strong and will be the man who will do the line bucking in the Harvard game. Spalding at right halfback is a fairly reliable all round player, though not brilliant in any sense of the word...
...substitute halfbacks, Reilly, the former end rush and Philbin, the brother of Yale's clever halfback of two years ago, and Anderson, a former "All Western" halfback from the University of Wisconsin, are the players who have good individual qualities but are not up to the standard of the 1910 backfield...
...short and stocky and a man at centre who is tall and apparently light in weight. The public has been accustomed to see big, rangy men at these positions in the Yale line. Then, too, in the backfield Captain Howe at quarterback weighs only 153 pounds. Spalding, the right halfback. weighs 165. Camp, the left halfback, is six feet tall, the tallest man seen in the Yale backfield since the days of Malcolm McBride. The weights vary from Howe at 153 to Paul at 193, who is the heaviest man on the team. The average weight of the rush line...