Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only Harvard player ruled out of the game due to injuries is halfback Tom Lawson. Larry Repsher, who showed his best running to date against Brown last week, will start at right half, in place of Lawson. Rounding out the varsity's backfield will be Charlie Ravenel, Sam Halaby, and Chet Boulris, all Crimson regulars for most of the season...
...Crimson continued to make its breaks for on the following play, a Yardling lineman pounced on a wind-blown kick-off before a Yale player touched it. After gaining five yards off tackle, Shipman slipped through left guard and raced thirty yards into the wind to score...
...strong southwest wind made playing conditions almost impossible as the team against the gale invariably had to go on the defensive. Several times, a player would get a good kick off into the wind, only to watch it come to a dead stop in mid air and fall about ten feet from where it was kicked...
After a week of scrimmages--the first since the beginning of the season--the Yardlings proved that they were as good as early season form had indicated as they dominated every offensive department. The team outgained Brown, 490 yards to 207 yards, and every Crimson player saw action in the contest...
Even his rival pros, who have cut down many a college star to size, speak of him with a respect that borders on awe. "He's the only player I know who can run faster sideways than he can straight ahead," says Pittsburgh's guard Dale Dodrill. Says the Steelers' speedy defensive halfback Jack Butler: "I don't really know how to stop him. I haven't been able to catch up to him yet." Los Angeles Linebacker Dick Daugherty, one of the surest tacklers in football, recalls the day last year that he zeroed...