Word: tailback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first offensive work today calling offensive signals. Wingback Bob Cowles, top Crimson defensive halfback last year, should add balance to the wing attack with his left-handed throwing. Most likely to crash the Crimson backfield today is hard-running senior Brian Reynolds, who has worked out at wingback, tailback and fullback...
...other regular Crimson backs, quarterback Bob Hardy and wingback Bob Cowles saw plenty of action, however, as two varsity teams scrimmaged two JV elevens. Sammy Fyock took over at Clasby's tailback spot in the first team backfield: Brian Reynolds, Jordan's versatile halfback, replaced Culver at fullback...
Playing in the second varsity team backfield were Joe Conzelman at quarter, Dick Hoffman at tailback, Frank White at wingback, and Dexter Lewis and Bill Volmer at fullback...
After a scoreless first half, the payoff play sent four receivers downfield in the third quarter. From among them, Substitute Tailback Rudy Bukich found Halfback Al Carmichael all alone in the end zone, hit him with a 22-yd. touchdown pass. Then, outlasting a Rose Bowl jinx that twice saw California lose to the Big Ten in the final minutes, the hopped-up Trojan defense stopped two more Wisconsin drives inside the 30. Final score, for the West Coast's first victory in seven lean years against the Midwest...
...lightning extras. The fall of '51 saw a helicopter-delivered Dartmouth extra that arrived at the stadium just after the final gun. With the presses rolling two minutes before the game completion, Crimed's hearts were going this-way, that-way as wildly as the varsity's brilliant sophomore tailback. It was easy to see whether one was loyal to the CRIMSON or the Crimson...