Word: tailback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiley is most dangerous on plays run from Princeton's "fullback-spin" series. These maneuvers begin with Tiley spinning half-way around to his left and faking a handoff to the tailback. This delays the run briefly, while the Tiger linemen attend to opening a hole at the desired spot among the defenders...
Between passes one might just observe an ex-Marine, Ron Lauretti, leading the backfield at the tailback spot. Lauretti was a surprise for Leckonby when he returned this fall. The fullback should be ably assisted by halfbacks Al Kovach and Charley Burger, the team captain...
...teams not using the split-T formation is Leverett, coached by Glen Nichols '59, which will play from the single wing. Good prospects are Tony Lake at tailback and Gus Alexander...
...based on the sadistic, satyric, free-lance detective created by Mickey ("I'm not an author, I'm a writer") Spillane. Soon to be shown by 122 stations, the series entangles Hammer with every evil from white slavery to the wayward son of a chambermaid. A onetime tailback for the College of the Pacific, Actor McGavin looks natural tossing heavies down flights of stairs and giving the leather to fallen enemies. But his performances as a whole are curiously uneven. In the first show he slurs his lines like a Bowery tough; in the second he enunciates like...
...Gang-tackling Tennessee Volunteers held Texas A. & M. scoreless by grinding the Aggies' great halfback. John Crow, deep into the wet turf of Florida's 'Gator Bowl. Crow, in turn, stopped one Tennessee touchdown by separating Volunteer Tailback Bobby Gordon from both ball and senses with a vicious tackle, saved another by hitting Gordon so hard that oxygen was needed to revive him. But Crow could not keep Tennessee's Sammy Burklow from kicking his only field goal of the season and winning the game...