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...football, linemen do the dirty work but the backs get the bouquets. This year, as usual, pre-season football prognosticators focused their attention on the outstanding college backs of the year. Most experts agreed that this year's crop was the most brilliant collection of all time: Michigan's Harmon and Kromer, Purdue's Brock and Brown, Notre Dame's Saggau and Zontini, Tennessee's Cafego, Pitt's Cassiano, Fordham's Eshmont, Duke's McAfee, many & many another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Backs | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...With two linemen out and the whole backfield shot to pieces Stahley has had his work cut out for him all week and still has no backfield selected for Saturday's game. But his greatest problem particularly aggravated by the continued changing of lineup has been to get a team that works together as a team, not just a group of individuals carrying out assignments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEAKENED '43 TEAM FACES WORCESTER | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...good share of the reason why he rates a first team tackle berth. Vern's 250 pounds are far from all fat. While Vern may still have a few tricks and intricacies of the game to learn, his size and surprising speed will give considerable consternation to opposing linemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

Kicking and blocking were stressed as the Yardling linemen went through a drill with the machines and the backs practiced their passing and punting. The season opens on October 7 with the Exeter game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '43 GRID CANDIDATES TURN OUT 100 STRONG | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

Orestes Jones kept his real ambitions under his hat until the time struck, contenting himself with filling such small orders as six football linemen for a worthy university, a guaranteed victorious Olympic team for Manchukuo. The big bee in Orestes' bonnet was war, which, he was convinced, "like any other business, could be vastly improved by those planning to engage in it." His first big order was for 500,000 men to mop up a threatened Communist outbreak in the Netherlands East Indies. Unfortunately for Orestes, the job was too easy. His supercharged G. M. units, just nicely warmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: G. M. | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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