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...local characters. At Swarthmore he shows a translucent, almost Flemish portrait of Lester, which suggests that everyman's mind, like the dumbest, claws at his own furthest limits of knowing the world. Another portrait is Shorty, which sets a stubble-faced recluse incongruously in a sleek green silk wingback chair. (Soon after the portrait was finished, Shorty burned to death in his shack.) An eerie vision of a Mushroom Picker in the subterranean farms of Pennsylvania casts the tiny fungus caps in an almost surreal drama of light and shadow...
...secondary was left practically unguarded. Navy creamed three out of Texas's first four running plays. But then, on third down, with the ball on his own 42, Carlisle dropped back and did the one thing the Middies never expected: he threw the bomb. On the Navy 40, Wingback Phil Harris-who had caught only five passes all season-daintily sidestepped Navy's Pat Donnelly and reached up. Down came the pass, spiraling prettily into his hands. No one touched Harris as he scampered all the way to the end zone. Stocking-footed Tony Crosby booted the extra...
Along with Wood, Columbia's boy wonder Archie Roberts and Dartmouth's partly crippled halfback Tom Spangenberg repeated on the first team. The other man in the first string backfield was Princeton wingback Jim Rockenbach...
Yale's pro-type offense, which puts a wingback in a tight slot and splits the opposite end wide, places a good deal of pressure on the ends and corner men, but fortunately that is where Harvard is stongest defensively. "They may give us some touble when they run inside," coach John Yovicsin has admitted, "but I think our defense will be able to contain them." If Yale can be held to short gains, Crimson coaches seem reasonably confident few Ell touchdowns will develop...
...other two running backs--fullback Don Jordan and wingback Frank Way--have gained 76 yards between them all season. As for Penn's mediocre passing game, Owens' injury all but nullifies that threat...