Word: stahl
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Yale's color may be blue, but to Crimson scouts Floyd Stahl and Lyal Clark, green is the keynote of this year's team...
Army's rise has been meteoric, and yesterday the Crimson's scouts, backfield coach Floyd Stahl and Jayvee mentor Henry Lamar, did everything possible to add lustre to the new light shining in the East. In their regular Monday afternoon meeting with the press they described the Army in terms very similar to those heard before the Dartmouth and Navy invasions, both of which ended to the advantage of Harvard's hitless wonders...
...Floyd Stahl summed up what the coaches think, or what the coaches want the public to think the coaches think, when he said, "We're trying to find a defense to stop them, but they're strong in right formation and they're strong in left formation, and they're strong to the strong side, and strong to the weak side," and that doesn't leave many more places in which a football team can exhibit its offensive strength...
Army's backfield is light, the first one all season which will weigh about the same as Harvard's. Stahl, however, characterizes it as the best balanced quartet to face the Crimson this year. And a look at its personnel would tend to bear out his statement, for in the first team backfield, Army's new coach. Earl Blaik, can count on three triple threats...
...Stahl had little to report in the way of "Cornell offense." The Ithacans scored early in the game on a looping pass and from then on went on the defensive, and used only three or four basic plays...