Word: runners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...watch in the Army backfield this afternoon are Jim Cain, Vic Pollock, an do course Arnold Galiffa. Cain is the Cadet's fastest runner and leading ground gainer, with an impressive 147 yards in three games. Top yards-pertly man is Pollock with an average of 8.4 in 15 tries. Galiffa, quarterback in the Army T, usually relegates the running game to his associates and concentrates on baffling the backer ups and throwing passes...
Tomorrow's schedule has Adams, with ten first stringers returning, meeting an equally experienced Lowell House squad. This will be another single wing versus T contest. Leverett, with a pair of good passers, plays Eliot, runner up in the House League race last year...
...used more end runs. Now look at the facts. Cornell has one of the fastest teams in the country. That means that backer-ups should be able to get to the flanks quickly to squelch end runs. On the Harvard side of the picture, the Crimson's one breakaway runner, Hal Moffie, was out of action. And two men who must throw crucial blocks on end-around plays, quarterback Bill Henry and running guard Howie Houston, were playing despite injuries which slowed them up and made it difficult for them to carry out their assignments on end runs. These circumstances...
Fullback Leon Van Bellingham was the first backfield substitute last fall and is perhaps the squad's best runner. Sophomore halfback Don Kimtis was Columbia's leading ground-gainer last week. Jim Ward at left end is the Light Blue's most experienced lineman. Even the six lettermen on the squad saw very little action last season because Little choose to stick with his number one eleven most of the time...
Mikkola held his first meeting of varsity candidates Tuesday and 11 runners from the 1948 squad showed up. Twentyeight were expected. The list of seasoned men is headed by Captain Joe Leeming, Joe Rosen, Dick White, Alden Albee, Henry Everett, and Bill Baker. Baker was hampered by a sore foot most of last season but appears sound again. White was the first Harvard runner to finish in the Big Three last year...