Word: runners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least three players whom Crimson coach John Yovicsin calls "among the best in the East," the Bruins have perhaps the most unheralded collection of talent in the Ivy League. Quarterback Frank Finney is the league's leading passer (outshining even Cornell's Tom Skypeck last week) and a good runner as well. Don Warburton--captain, center, and linebacker--is Brown's mainstay on defense, and 205-1b. Paul Choquette, a fullback who combines a juggernaut charge with surprising speed, rounds out this deadly up-the-middle combination...
...yard Springfield pass late in the first period countered the Crimson's first touchdown. On the conversion try, a Harvard tackler managed to push the Springfield runner out of bounds on the one foot line...
...addition, left-half Chet Boulris has been practicing with the "B" squad this week, but Yovicsin emphasized that this in no way meant he had demoted his star runner. "I'm just shaking up the team to give some of the boys a boost," the coach stated. Don Gerety and Bruce McIntyre have shared the left-half post thus far this week...
...thing about running is that it hurts," one of the "pro's" told his teammates. "It's going to hurt anyway, so you might as well run harder." There was a lot of talk about not being able to run the two miles and how little sleep each runner had had the night before...
...runners strung out in a long line along the Soldiers Field fence, and far in front bobbed the red and green and blue jerseys. So far in front were the jerseys that it took a less speedy, but more enterprising runner to discover that Gate 12 was closed and that a third of the race had passed it by. With a motion both swift and efficient, this hero swung open Gate 12, giving those behind him a "second wind," to coin a phrase...