Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While reserving comment on such changes until after seeing movies of the game, the coach gave individual praise to backs Vince Moravec, Chip Gannon, and Jim Kenary, and in the line to Chuck Glyna and Bob Kennedy. He rated Moravec "a tremendously improved football player" and Gannon "a runner who doesn't know...
...power and coordination for the opening game and also relative to other Crimson elevens of the years just past. Harlow has a backfield to work with for a change. Gannon and Moravec averaged 10-yard gains every time they ran with the ball, and Kenary proved himself a tricky runner as well as an accomplished passer...
Timing & Tricks. By now, Robbie has carefully catalogued pitchers' weaknesses. He has, for example, discovered that when Boston's Si Johnson crooks his neck in a certain way, Si has stopped worrying about the base-runner and is about to pitch. This discovery gives Jackie a split-second head start on his way to second...
...Donnell, brother of last fall's captain Cleo, who played only on the defense last season because his arm was in a cast and earned his cognomen "radar" as one of the leading pass-Interceptors in the country, and who this year shapes up as a potential runner and passer on the offense...
...long passes and making several long gains on the ground. Moffie made his first Varsity showing in the second B.C. tussle and endeared himself to such Crimson partisans as were present with assorted lightning breakaways through the Idagles' secondary. Competing with Moffie for the left-halfback slot is runner and passer Chuck Roche, star of the 1945 informal eleven. Returning also are such capable performers in the 1946 backfield as halfbacks Leo Flynn and Paul Shafer and fullback Paul Lazzaro, while Jim Noonan is playing quarterback behind Kenary and O'Donnell. Also competing for a fullback berth and showing some...