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Schmitt's kidding is reserved for those players least likely to crack the headlines, no matter how good they are. These are the interior linemen, that small group of big men who line up from tackle to tackle. An average day as Soldiers Field might find Schmitt starting out on Jumbo Jennings ("...we just don't have any bigger pants"), switching to Art Pappas, ("Are you sure you wouldn't like to be a fullback again?") and then moving over to Bob Stargel, who carries the ball from time to time on the tricky "tackle around" called the "Stargel Special...
...Harvard team was eating mud. The Crimson had scored one victory and lost eight times the previous year. The team's record didn't improve much in 1950--one victory and seven losses--but the rebuilding process was under way. During this period, Schmitt probed among the junior varsity linemen, seeking players who had what he looks for in a lineman: some football instinct, much patience and a lot of heart. That search netted two players, Joe Shaw and Cy Thompson. Many techniques of line play must be learned by rote, and Thompson and Shaw were willing to devote...
...Dartmouth defense, except for the Penn game has been very sporadic with opponents averaging 23 points--mostly on passes--a game against the Green. A lot of the linemen play at least part of the game both ways, and inspiration is needed at the end to keep going...
Lahar is not an exponent of the two-platoon system. Captain Main often goes both ways. Simmons, leading offensive halfback, is described in a Colgate press dispatch as one of "the top defensive backs in the East." Although some of his lighter linemen would give way to replacements, Lahar would very likely use a tackle like Tomanek, 220-pound sophomore, for the better part of a game...
...scribes,' led by hard-charging linemen Normie Ray and Denny Weiss, fought off three valiant manager scoring threats in the last period...