Word: halfbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sportswriters voted Iowa's little Nile Clarke Kinnick the No. 1 player of the year. Grandson of onetime Governor George Clarke of Iowa, son of a onetime quarterback at Iowa State, and catcher for famed Bob Feller on a schoolboy baseball team in his hometown of Adel, Iowa, Halfback Kinnick, in an age when most footballers play only 30 minutes of a game, played the full 60 minutes in six tough games. His passing, punting, blocking, running sparked Iowa to win six of its eight games...
...Harlan Gustafson of Penn, a towering wingman who seemed to have glue dripping from his fingers in his Stadium appearance, and "Bombshell Bill" Hutchinson of Dartmouth, a resourceful halfback who made life miserable for Harvard ends, were the two unanimous choices...
...HAVEN, Connecticut Harold Bartlett Whiteman, Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee, a left halfback, today was unanimously chosen captain of Yale's 1940 football team...
David Ives, who has starred all year at the fullback post, will start at right halfback, replacing Bill Edgar, who has moved up to the center forward position...
...Tine, stocky halfback, who reeled off a series of long gains, the Crimson squad scored again in the second quarter when veteran Sherm Hoar went over from the one yard line. Ted Lyman's kick was blocked...