Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skip Stahley's Yardlings were vanquished 20 to 14, in a hard fought encounter Saturday when Heyes, a substitute Exeter halfback 50 yards for a touchdown in the final period. This was the initial game for the Freshmen...
...losers showed drive and spectacular offense unusual for a Yardling team at the start of the season. They started the scoring when Don McNicol, a sterling halfback, found Bill Lyle with a pass in the first quarter...
...chief losses are at halfback and fullback, where positions were left vacant by Robin Scully, who decided to graduate in three years, and Nap Hardenberg, a resident of South Africa, who has left school to join the British army. It Carr can fill these positions with reserves or Jayvees from last year or with two of the three or four capable kickers from the class of '42, he will have few major worries...
Another college baseballer who has had big-league scouts tripping over one another in the stands is Duke's Leftfielder Eric Tipton, more famed as the punting halfback who almost singlehanded defeated Pitt's famed football team last fall. In three years of varsity baseball, Titan Tipton has batted .446, .407, .410. Tipton, however, is not Duke's only slugger. This year's team has six .400 batters. So far this season they have won 21 of their 22 games, have averaged n.i runs and 13.2 hits a game-a record even more extraordinary than Duke...
...main thing that I must do this spring is to get the boys oriented into their positions. A lot of them will find themselves in entirely new places next fall." He plans to switch Torby Macdonald from wing to halfback. He definitely will not play Bill Coleman, of this year's second string, at guard, but will place him at center. Ernie Sargent will probably play blocking back instead of guard...