Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving the Yale varsity practice against Army formations, the Yale scrub squad assumed the names of Army players. But no scrub could have impersonated Halfback Jack Buckler vividly enough to prepare Yale for what the real Buckler did last week. Repeatedly swift-footed Buckler took the ball on the run, drew back his arm as if to pass. While the Yale defense scattered. Buckler might streak around end. Or he might pass, while sprinting like a jackrabbit. Seven times his passes plumped into Army hands for total gains of 148 yd. Twice they made touchdowns and once they carried...
Scoring on a twenty-yard pass from fullback Vitale to halfback Barthelmess, the football team from the 110th Company of the C.C.C., whose camp is located near Andover, defeated Eliot House, 6-0, yesterday afternoon. The try for point after touchdown failed, as the ball sailed wide of its mark between the uprights...
...brilliant forward passes for 80 yd. in the last three minutes pave Syracuse its first victory over Cornell since they began to play in 1891, 14-to-7. Minnesota's sophomores jolted big, strong Pitt with its first defeat of the season, 7-10-3. Tulane's Halfback Bucky Bryan received the second-half kick-off behind his own goal line, sloshed 101 yd. down a muddy field through the entire Georgia Tech team for the winning touchdown. 7-to-0. Dartmouth came from behind in the second half, whipped a forward pass in the last few minutes...
...reserves, many of them sophomores from last year's undefeated freshman team. His strategy was to fight for an early lead, dig in and hold on. He predicted: "The first period will tell." The first period had hardly begun when Princeton made a touchdown. Columbia's Halfback Maniaci was running back the kick-off when two Princeton tacklers hit him so hard they jarred the ball loose. Princeton grabbed it, put it over the line in five smashing plays. In that period and the next, Princeton's linemen charged and blocked so fiercely that a flashy...
...California to a scoreless tie, broke the latter's string of 25 consecutive victories. U. S. C. made twelve first downs to Oregon State's one, gained 238 yd. to Oregon's 62. U. S. C. came nearest to scoring with a forward pass which Oregon Halfback Franklin intercepted on his goal line...