Word: wingback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backfield, tailback Pote Petrille, wingback Nick Athans, and quarterback Hugh Edmonds, all veterans of former Crimson Varsity and Jayvee elevens, are now back following leaves of absence. Other men, notably tailbacks Jim Noonan and Chuck Roche, quarterback Bill Henry, and tackle Doug Bradlee are looking more poised than they did last fall for Dick Harlow...
Bill Olson, wingback on the 1947 Lions, will continue in that spot, while Johnny Nork, last year's number one backfield replacement, has displayed some fancy running in practice and should fill the fourth backfield starting slot...
Nelson, age 30, played three years of football, basketball, and baseball while in college and, in 1940, played wingback in the same backfield with All-America Tom Harmon. He has served as athletic director and head football coach at Hillsdale College, Michigan, for the last two years where his terms ran up a string of 15 consecutive victories...
...most devastating fullback plays in the Crisler repertoire is the bucklateral series which he developed at Princeton and which is now being revived with considerable success there by Charlie Caldwell. Clee O'Donnell, 1946 Crimson captain who played first-string wingback against Chappuis, Wistert, & Company in the 35 to 7 rout at Ann Arbor in 1942, says Michigan ruined the Crimson that day on buck-lateral plays...
...third standout on this year's quintet in George Sella, brilliant wingback on that well-remembered Princeton football team. Last year he was a star of the Tiger freshman five, which lost only once. He plays baseball...