Word: tailback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fillipin, a 185 pound tailback, who has now scored 13 touchdowns and passed for four others in his last three games, was rarely tackled at the line of scrimmage. He often broke away for a prolonged gain after seemingly being stopped...
John Michelsen, who has alternated at quarterback with Joe Crehore all season, will start today, and will call the signals. Dexter Lewis, leading scorer with three of the team's five touchdowns, will start again at wingback. Dick Oehmler, a good runner and an excellent kicker, will be at tailback. The only big change in the backfield sees Art Painter starting in place of Bill Volmer at fullback. Volmer, the team's best tackler, will start on defense...
...this year, tailback Dick Clasby and fullback John Culver have piled up enough yardage to make the Crimson a major offensive threat. The rushing, passing, total offense, and scoring columns of Ivy statistic books, recently so bare of Harvard names, now has more than its share of them...
...Unger and Bill Tryon have alternated at the tailback position, in Princeton's buck-lateral single wing attack. Although the left-handed Unger is used primarily for passing and the right-handed Tryon for running, they have both proved fairly adept in either department...
...Margarita brought his freshmen over to give the first varsity defensive unit a taste of the Princeton-style passing attack. Margarita himself did much of the throwing from the tailback position in the semi-live scrimmage...