Word: wingback
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...fast, though Ossman and a freshman wingback named John Tulenko ran very well for the Crimsons, they made most of their gains on the passing of another freshman, tailback Dick Clasby...
White is perhaps even better known for his other athletic activities. He is captain of the baseball team, having earned that post, characteristically, after only one season of baseball here: he did not play in either his freshman or sophomore years. And he is also a fine wingback, although he did not play football last fall...
Lamar will probably start his regular backfield: Captain Dick Clasby at tailback, Tony Caimi at quarterback, John Tulenko at wingback, and either John Culver or Warren O'Donnell at fullback. Caimi, a converted guard, is probably the most improved player on the squad. He blocks fairly well, is a good enough pass receiver to be a downfield threat, and can run the team well when called upon to do so. If O'Donnell does not start, Caimi will call the freshman signals...
...fall practice and used successfully up until last Saturday. The split-T involves a half back, stationed well outside the end, who becomes a man-in-motion threading his way through the backfield on practically every play. This system is well-suited to tricky reverses and laterals, for the wingback can either take a hand off from one of the other backs, fake a reverse and continue on out for a pass, or go directly out from the flank for a pass...
Hickman, the Yale coach, installed an "A" or short punt formation for Tisdale, with Senay and Spears as blockers and a third end as a wingback. Tisdale got fine protection, and even when he began passing eight or nine times in a row there was nothing the Princeton defense could do about...