Word: team
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second team: ends, Hickok of Yale and O'Connell of Harvard; tackles, Himmelberg of Holy Cross and Barber of Dartmouth; guards, Greene of Yale and Bianchi of New Hampshire; center, Andres of Dartmouth; quarterback, Wood of Harvard halfbacks, Mays of Harvard and Ellis of Yale; fullback, Harper of Harvard...
...Time Out introduces his all-Stadium team for the current season. The choices include Yale on the basis of that team's play in the Yale-Dartmouth contest; otherwise Florida players are the only ones whose work in the Stadium has not actually been seen...
...First team: ends, Yudicky of Dartmouth and Barres of Yale; tackles, Perry of Army and Barrett of Harvard; guards, Bromberg of Dartmouth and Steele of Florida: center, Ben Ticknor of Harvard; quarterback, Marsters of Dartmouth; halfbacks, Booth of Yale and Cagle of Army; fullback, Murrel of Army...
What a first team backfield that would be! Among them there's not a thing in the game of football that Booth, Marsters, Cagle and Murrel can't do and do it well. You couldn't do a great deal better if you had the whole country as a field to choose from...
...each Yale and Dartmouth, three from Army, and one apiece from Florida, Holy Cross, and New Hampshire are included. Probably this means that there's something wrong, but it also may reflect the influence of prejudice. For example Barrett, Harvard's captain, scarcely deserves his position on the first team on the basis of his play so far this season. But Barrett proved his caliber under heavy fire all last year when responsibility weighed on his shoulders less heavily, and somehow a feeling that without him the team would not really be at its full strength refuses to be downed...