Word: passer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 his sophomore year, is William Barry Wood...
...Sigma Nu, studies in the School of Education, plans to make dentistry his hobby, because he enjoys pulling teeth. In important games, Rentner loses his elaborate carelessness, tries furiously to justify the pseudonym he likes best: "Flying Dutchman.'' Last year he was noted mainly as a passer. This year his open field running against Ohio State and Illinois made him star of the best backfield in the Big Ten, perhaps the best in the country. His favorite play is a sweeping left end run. He follows his interference closely till he passes the line of scrimmage, pauses...
...thrown for a loss and a safety, making the score at the half 6 to 2. From then on the game was characterized by short losses by both teams. At one point Clark, Dartmouth leader, was in a clear field ready to pull down a forward, but the passer was hurried and the ball went wide and was knocked down. The game ended with the ball in the CRIMSON's possession on its own two-yard line...
...Elkins, veteran quarterback of two years' standing who is an important cog in the invading machine. Light, fast, an accurate passer, the 155-pound pilot is the guiding genius of Coach Littlefield's Lone-star-staters...
...bullet passer and gigantic ball carrier of the Longhorn aggregation whom 2000 Texas supporters expect to give Harvard considerable trouble as he makes gaps in the Crimson line. When you watch this fighting player, reminiscent of another Coy, you will follow him along with a cheering section of ardent Texans...