Word: tailback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard, now 1-2, was not out-classed by the favored Cadets, but rather could not stop the tailback, who burned Brown for 170 yards last weekend...
Only Yale--quickly establishing itself once again as the class of the Ivies--with a 27-18 win over cross-state rival, UConn, emerged unscathed. Led for the second week in a row by the powerful running of tailback Rich Diana (140 yards, two touchdowns), the Elis came back three times to overturn the previously unbeaten Huskies. Diana also completed a halfback option pass for 22 yards...
Stop blushing, Carm. no need to be modest. Everybody knows you've got all your big defensive guns back, primed and ready to go. Also back is tailback Rich Diana, only the third Yale runner ever to gain more than 1000 yards in a season. Just as importantly, senior quarterback John Rogan and a crop of talented receivers are back, promising to make Cozza's multiple-I formation a potent threat. Rogan will be looking for favorite receiver Curtis Grieve; that combination, as Harvard fans will painfully remember, buried the Crimson last November. All these potential offensive fireworks depend...
Second-team all-Ivy tailback Joe Cabrera leads the backs, while soph Jim McHale--"bona fide 4.5 40," says Naso--will provide quick yardage from the same position. Fullbacks Jim Pritchard and James Powell fill out the backfield...
...slept three to a room and there were feet everywhere," says South Carolina Tailback George Washington Rogers, 22, of his impoverished childhood in rural Duluth, Ga. For the past four football seasons, Rogers' fleet feet have been everywhere. He led the nation in rushing with 1,781 yds., sufficient mileage to earn him the 46th annual Heisman Trophy as the country's outstanding college football player. With the bulk (225 lbs.) of a fullback, the 6-ft. 2-in. Rogers ran for 4,958 yds. during his South Carolina career to become the fourth alltime college rusher...