Word: tailback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Dick Colman has the proper personnel. Tailback Hugh Scott, though not exceptionally fast, has proved an extremely powerful and canny runner as well as a capable passer. At present he is third in the league in total offense with 358 yards...
...tailback, the strong man of the backfield, normally throws 90 per cent of the Tiger aerials as well as performing much of the running. For a change of pace, though, Iseman will take the ball, fake a reverse, and throw deep to Ed Kostelnik, second All-Ivy choice last year...
...sole Brown touchdown came late in the second period after the Bruins had lost four yards in three plays. Rolling through a muddy Harvard defense, Cub quarterback Dennis Hauflaire snagged a pass from tailback Dennis Redding and galloped into the end zone. Brown missed the conversion, but seemed on its way to a victory when the half ended...
There had been plenty of other offers. Shrewd, tough and resourceful, Otto Graham was an All-America tailback at Northwestern University, passed and ran the Cleveland Browns to seven league championships in a glittering ten-year professional career that ended in 1955. Last year, proving he could coach big-time football as well as play it, Graham turned assorted college players into a smooth unit that trounced the world champion Detroit Lions in the annual all-star game...
With an assortment of experienced and not-so-experienced forwards, Princeton has a number of combinations, but will probably start Pete Cook, John Hill and John McBride on the first trio. The sophomore line is paced by Hugh Scott, the elusive tailback with a hard shot, who skates with Bill Miller and Lance Odden...