Word: wingback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Coach George Munger led the team in a calisthenics drill, the boys practiced passing and kicking. Wingback Jackie Welsh, a left-footed punter, struck terror into the hearts of the few Crimson supporters watching with several long, angled spirals of better than 60 yards...
Three juniors with speed to burn, Joe Kane, Bob Odell, and Bill Miller, are enough to make any defense pant, This trio, which will see action at wingback and tailback slots, should bring plenty of trouble for the Crimson ends. When these boys run, they...
Paul Lazzaro, playing wingback on the B eleven, also did a good job in his "round-the-end" sweeps, Lazzaro's style of play is very much like that of the tried and tested Cleo O'Donnell; smart, shiftly, hard to pin down once he gets going...
...Cummings, substituting for the injured Don Forte, played a whale of a game, as did Charley Gudaitis, Jack Fisher, and Swede Anderson . . . Only Chapel Hill casualty was Most Landsberg, formerly wingback at Cornell ... Cummings did a job on the ex-Ithacan with a hard, high tackle which knocked him cold...
Bill Wilson '44, wingback, is the most experienced backfield man on the squad. He started several games last year at tailback, but this year Harlow shifted him over to the wingback slot filled by Franny Lee, 1941 captain...