Word: tailbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Army had jumped over the line and stopped one double-shift Captain Green, who was calling the plays in the absence of tailback Foley, called for the same shift again. As the Harvard team walked up to the line from the huddle, Green said to the Army defenders, "This is the same shift again...
...every enemy backfield which boasts such names as Woodrow Wilson and Huey Long, but the Army starting quartet includes them both. The Cadets use a single wingback offense with Wilson at tailback to the right and Long at tailback to the left...
Starters for the 1942 outfit are Tom Johnson and George Kuhn, ends, Vern Miller and Tom Gardiner, tackles; Endicott Peabody and Don Wilson, guards; Chuck Ayres, center; Frank Lee, wingback; Ted Lyman, blocking back; Harry Tine, bucking back; and Fred Spreyer, tailback...
Pressing these backs for their posts are Harry Tine, an Andover back who ran 60 yards through the entire Yale Freshman team last year for a touchdown; Eddie Buckley, a hard-hitting tailback; Tom Cook a good blocker; and stock Lothrop Withington...
Behind a line of such high specific gravity, there is a backfield which will make them run hard and fast, to keep out of the way at least. Standouts are Al Vander Eb, Frank Lee, George Heiden, and Fred Spreyer. Vander Eb is a husky, hard-hitting tailback from Loomis who may do the kicking Saturday...