Word: wingback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard may have no football coach, but a pilot lack has not kept the Crimson line-up from doing a little off-season scrimmaging. Chip Gannon, 180-pound wingback, muscled his way onto the floor of the Hotel Somerset's Balinese Room Thursday night and into the arms of Betty Anne Grove, 100-pound chanteuse...
Brown will use a modified variation of the T formation that goes by a number of titles, namely the Engle T, the swing T and the wing T. The system employs the right halfback in a wingback position instead of the conventional position in the T formation. Coach Engle believes that this man can be sued to greater advantage in this position that in the regular spot...
Solid foundation of the Tigers' hopes is a healthy percentage returned from last year's outfit, spiced by two new backs who figure to outrace Crimson defenders tomorrow. Potent Paul Cowie, dashman who whipped Army's Glenn Davis last year, paces the Bengal attack, with help from George Sella, wingback whose twelve pass receptions this fall have netted him 285 yards...
...Wally Flynn returning to the end slot he had left two weeks ago to help the disastrous fullback situation. Speedster Paul Lazzaro moved up into the A team at the plunging post, with Sam Adams advancing from C to B behind him and Paul Shafer switching from his wingback spot as added insurance at full...
Crisler hasn't a single so-called "power play" in all his bag of tricks. Yet he builds his plays on the single-wingback, a formation fundamentally designed for power. On most teams the fullback is a burly, bludgeoning line-plunger. Crisler's fullbacks must be slick ball-handlers; they start most of his plays...