Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ducky Pond was a spectacular halfback, tutored by Tad Jones. He is most famed for the game which won him his nickname, played in a driving rain with Harvard in 1923. Pond recovered a Harvard fumble, sloshed to Yale's first touchdown against Harvard in seven years. Since 1928 he has been on Yale's coaching staff in charge of scrubs and as chief scout. He is short, thick, dainty on his feet, exceedingly fast. On and off the field he is quiet. He does not scold his players, does not give fight talks, convinces them that they...
Coach Lorn is not Chinese. He is a Jew who was once a crack halfback of University of California.* He artfully persuaded his players who did show up that their parents would probably be less irate if they won. However the Japanese, including two former college linemen named Ping Oda and Ichiyafu, outplayed them for three periods. Then the Chinese team pulled itself together. Leong blocked Sim Nambu's punt on Japan's 8-yd. line, and Charley Hing slashed to a touchdown. Another blocked kick and Hing went over again. With the score 13-to-12 against...
...play was in Columbia territory most of the time. Stanford outrushed Columbia 242 yd. to 70 yd., made 16 first downs to Columbia's six. But Stanford made eight fumbles and Columbia recovered four of them. The touchdown came in the second period, when Columbia's Halfback Al Barabas cut around Stanford's right end and loped across the line standing up. Center Newt Wilder kicked the extra point. From then on Columbia's job was to dig into the slime and hold against Stanford's inexhaustible reserves. Columbia not only held, but turned Stanford...
Selections for the first team are captain-elect G. Frederick Stork '35, inside left forward; Captain William Wemple '34, in the left fullback position; and John Dorman '36, at center halfback...
...Crimson booters on the second team are Jonathan S. England '35 at goal and Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36, as left halfback...