Word: wingback
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Yale's football team found places for three members of the Varsity eleven on its all-opponents team selected Wednesday. Guard Emil Drvaric, center Jack Fisher and Wingback Tom Gannon were among the Eli selections. Harvard was the only Bulldog fee with three players chosen...
...story on Gannon, carried under the by-line of Arthur Siegal, sports editor of the Boston Traveler, was called "a lie" by the Crimson wingback. "I don't know where he got the story," Gannon added, "but it's not true. We're going to have a good club next year, and it looks like people who don't like us are trying to ruin the team before we even get started...
Latest selection of "all" teams to reach the Boston papers, the All-New England team, as selected by the United Press Wednesday night, placed center Jack Fisher and wingback Chip Gannon on its last eleven...
Swift Chip Gannon will be the key operative among next year's veterans. Only a Freshman this fall, Gannon nevertheless managed to earn himself plenty of fame around the Ivy circuit. At his wingback post he will always be a long-gain threat and at the same time a back who can be counted on to drive with all the muscle in him for the essential two yards. Chip's work against both ground and aerial attacks has been commendable, and his passing will remain a threat--and a constantly increasing one--especially on his optional end run-pass. Behind...
Yale's only concerted drive came later in the period, but it stopped at the Harvard five on an intercepted pass. With thirty seconds remaining in the half, wingback Paul Kelly intercepted a Bulldog aerial on the Yale 30 and returned it to the 9. On the next play, Tom Mosely's pass to Tom Wilson brought the Crimson its third score. Will McDaniel's placekick was wide...