Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Nassau game Bill Watt, Harvard football halfback, has been shifted out to the wing three-quarter where his hard hitting and speed will count more than in his former inside position. Alan Simpson and Jerry Desmond have been shifted to the inside three-quarters in order to speed up the attack, especially in getting the ball out to the wing...
George Owen '23, brilliant halfback in '20, '21, and '22 and All-American favored a longer fall training season although he believed that spring practice was worth-while. "I would have hated to play through a season without that early start," he laughed. However he believes that the Harlow system, of which he highly approves, is an intricate one and therefore made much more efficient by the early acquaintance with it given to the players in spring practice...
...they don't already do it, students at Indiana University should take time off to have a look at six-foot Kermit Maynard, once (in early twenties) an All-Western Conference Hoosier halfback. Maynard will probably be found on the screen of some side-street theater, acting in a "horse-and-oats opera," like Sandy of the Mounted or Trails of the Wild...
Gloomy Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland knew that Coach Jim Phelan had drilled the Huskies to watch Marshall Goldberg. 18-year-old Panther halfback. He kept Goldberg out of his attack, used him as a decoy to suck in the defense while Bobby LaRue and Frank Patrick took the ball away. Eel-hipped Patrick's spinners knifed long gashes in the famed Washington line. LaRue pointed his knees at the Husky ends, hitting top speed in a stride or two while his interference took out the secondary defense as if they thought each play was a potential touchdown...
...winner of the Packers v. Redskins game this week will go the professional championship of the U. S. Among the Packers' stars favored to win it are: Halfback John Blood, whose service record of 13 years is the longest in the League, whose size (6 ft., 190 Ib.) is pygmy compared to a team averaging 20 Ib. more, and whose orangutan arms make him equally dreaded as a pass catcher and a tackler; End Don Hutson, whose 34 catches this season broke the League record; Arnold ("Flash") Herber, whose accuracy has enabled him to throw completed passes totaling...