Word: verne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cleo O'Donnell, Dick Row, and Russ Stanford were outstanding. Nobody can be picked out of that starting lineup as any more brilliant than the rest. Starting with Bill Baracs, who filled in more than ably for Loren MacKinney at left end, and going right down the line through Vern Miller, Chub Peabody, Johnny Page, Dick Pfister, Tom Gardiner, and Don Forte, they were all "terrific...
...Middies and the Crimson are acknowledged to have the best forward bulwarks in the recent history of the two institutions. When the cannonading starts at 2 o'clock the Blue and Gold wall will be complete from stem to stern, including 250 pound Gene Flathmann who is to mammoth Vern Miller what the Tyranausourous Rex was to the mastodon...
Dick Pfister was back in action, apparently completely recovered from his body injury of last Saturday, but Harlow gave Vern Miller the day off because of a slight cold. In his place George Hibbard filled in on the left tackle spot, while Bull Barnes ran through signals in Loren MacKinney's old position...
...tailback is Bill Busik, 185 pounds of treacherous triple threatery, and a potential All-American. The rest of the backfield runs like the wind and blocks like a landslide, according to Swirles, and anyone who saw the Middles' blocking back, Johnny Harrell, flatten Vern Miller in under three minutes last winter will not doubt that there is power to spare there. Harrell lays claim to the intercollegiate Heavyweight wrestling title as a mater of fact...
Harvard, with two light-weight Juniors scheduled to start in the otherwise all-Senior line, will be outweighed three or four pounds to the man. The line averages of the two teams are relatively close, due to the presence of mountainous Vern Miller in the Crimson front office, but the Harlow-coached squad yields a 12 pound advantage per man in the backfield ranks...