Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reunion. He waved his arms excitedly while the teammates rah-rahed mildly for Stanford. Then on the lawn the players crouched in their oldtime positions and, with "Bill" Harrelson calling the half-forgotten signals at quarter, went through several phantom formations. One drop-kick sailed over the hedge and Halfback Jackson Eli Reynolds, president of the First National Bank of the City of New York, went scrambling after it. That evening 14 Stanford men sat down to dinner with the President in the State dining room. Because Lawyer Charles Fickert, flying East, was delayed by a snow storm, Representative Arthur...
Harvard, coached this year by one-time (1916, 1919) Halfback Eddie Casey, has a different sort of team, a team that has won most of its games by a conservative, powerful ground attack, supplemented by passes which were more popular a few years ago than they are now- long, risky forwards which need an expert passer at one end, an expert receiver at the other. Harvard's best running backs are Crickard and Schereschewsky; Nazro and Hageman are brilliant ends. But the essence of Harvard football this year, as Booth has been the essence of Yale football since...
...Harvard-Army game had sounded crabbed to Harvardmen. Coach Casey had refused to show Husing diagrams of Harvard plays or let him watch practice. The Harvard-Yale game will be broadcast by Ralph ("Gil") Gilroy, a South Bostonian whom Harvardmen well remember as a hard- boiled Princeton halfback...
Wood kicked to Lassiter on the five yard Yale line. The sophomore Eli halfback threw a nifty pass to Wilbur, who was downed by Crickard for a 20-yard gain. On the second down Lassiter was nailed by sherry for no gain. On next play with seven yards to go, Crowley was thrown for seven yards. Parker kicked from his own 45-yard line to the Harvard 10-yard marker, Crickard running the ball back to his own 23-yard line...
...Crickard, stellar Crimson halfback who has been the best Harvard ground gainer all year. Look for his brilliant off-tackle slashes and end runs...