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...last resort, Crone says that he will consider playing with several of his former teammates, including former quarterback rival Rod Foster and halfback Ted DeMars, with the New England Colonials...
WHERE MUNRO IS going to find halfbacks has to be one of his biggest worries as he puts his squad through double workout sessions this week. "We need a good strong center half," he said Thursday, "and we'll probably have to make some halfbacks out of some fullbacks." Starting left fullback Ric LaCivita has already gone this route, and appears to be the only one with a halfback spot tied down...
...Sciolla is the only returning letterman at defensive halfback. A spot player last year, Sciolla looked good in third-down passing situations when he came in to shore up the aerial defense and should end up as one of the starters for the Crimson this Fall. Still, Restic has to find two other people to work at halfback (only one if he finds an adjuster). Mike Page, who was injured last year, and Alex Costello are two possibilities, with freshmen Jon Judge and Barry Cronin also in the picture...
...halfback Harvard lost anchorman Teddy DeMars and speedster Mark Wheeler. To replace these two, Restic has five reliable, if not spectacular, performers to choose from. Juniors Alky Tsitsos, Ed Cronin, and Steve Dart, and sophomores Burrelle Duvauchelle and Al Yates are all cut from approximately the same mold. All the halfback candidates are good blockers, but since Nick Leone's decision to drop out of football to devote his time to track, none of the Crimson backs has better than average speed...
Oldtime fans who saw him in action still insist that Clint Frank was the greatest football player who ever strapped on a helmet. Frank, who won the Heisman Trophy in 1937 as a Yale halfback, has since run up a lot of points in another field: advertising. His Chicago-based Clinton E. Frank, Inc. had 1972 billings of $87 million...