Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jerry Hall at center is a strong defensive lineman, his 185 pounds giving the middle of the Deacon wall needed weight. Hall's passing has not been of the best recently, but the last few days' practice have ironed out his difficulties...
Throughout the first half, the Winthrop backfield, hindered by the loss of Rich Weller and Johnny Butler, was ineffective, with the whole Deacon line, notably Dave Grey, Norm Polansky, and Jerry Hall breaking in. The Kirkland backs were equally helpless against the Winthrop forward wall...
Likwise the guard play of both teams was the best seen this year. Dave Grey piled up play after play over his position in the Deacon wall, but the fighting game turned in by Winthrop's Sam Binnian ranks as the best piece of individual line play seen this season on House fields. He was ably supported by mate Dick Eustis...
...avenue from end to end. As the tumult of the whistles died away, two Cadillacs driven by anarchists zigzagged madly up the street toward the guns, making 70 m.p.h., their horns screaming. Like monstrous torpedoes they plowed through the line of soldiers, charged the gun crews, piled into a wall beside them in black, blood-spattered heaps of wreckage. Their drivers were dead. But the guns were silenced...
Kirkland's backfield of Earl Foster, Roy Moore, Jack McClure, and Al Silverberg is the Deacon strong point. No serious injuries will hamper the Deacons, but whether their feet backs can penetrate a strong Winthrop forward wall is the question which may determine the outcome of the game...