Word: pfann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is a tradition about sport in England", Henry went on to say, "which is not found in our highly organized and progressive system. There is a story which I think demonstrates the point I am trying to bring out about Pfann, Cornell's famous backfield man, who went to Oxford, where he took up Rugby. In Rugby there is much passing of the ball, but it is all done underhand and when Pfann and one of his former teant-mates introduced the overhand pass which is used in American football it proved to be a demoralizing innovation. In this...
...next day, at Geneva, New York, the team was defeated 8-7 by Hobart, and after practicing again at Syracuse. Harvard bowed before Cornell at Ithaca on Saturday. Pfann and Cassidy, of football fame, supported by a heavy and experienced team scored eight goals, while holding Harvard scoreless...
...Pfann Q. B. Cornell...
...Supplee of Maryland, ends; Sundstrom of Cornell and Milstead of Yale, tackles; Bedenk of Penn State and Hubbard, guards; and Garbisch of the Army, center, are in the line. The backfield consists of Wilson, Penn State, and Tryon, Colgate, in the halfback positions; Darling, Boston College, at fullback; and Pfann, Cornell, at quarterback...
ITHAGA, N. Y., April 12.--The Cornell football squad held its first spring practice today, at which sixty men reported, including Captain-elect Pfann. The season was opened on April 3 with a meeting of all the candidates in Schoellkopf Memorial Hall, and will last until about...