Show I. I I Pitt Backfield Ranked As Tops in Grid up Set-up By JERRY BRONDFIELD Special to The Telegram The backfield to end all that's that's ds-that's that's what Pittsburgh's first string lugging leather-lugging crew is being referred d to as Jock Suther Sutherland land makes his plans to sharpen the I Observers Panthers Panther's fi i claws A Pitts Pitt's Pit q quartet t. t o oi or I Johnny Chickerneo Blocks and calls signals for Pitt Observers fi i A Pitts Pitt's Pit q quartet t. t o oi or figure gure Johnny Chickerneo Dick Cassiano Harold Stebbins and Marshall Goldberg Goldberg Gold Gold- berg will be the greatest carry ball ing department ever assembled in inthe inthe the Smoky city maybe city maybe elsewhere Better passers kickers and other specialty artists have been turned turned loose elsewhere but this bunch makes carrying ball their chief stock in trade Last year the Panthers gained the tine amazing total of odd 2400 yards from scrimmage and scrimmage and forward forward for fore ward passes played a very small part of their march They should beat that mark in 1938 Cassiano is the the- slippery here here-he- there is-there-he-goes type who runs runs the ends to death Stebbins a big goes great on cutbacks and reverses Goldberg who shifts to full this season is the power runner who can bang of off a tackle with terrific momentum or split a aline aline aline line wide open merely from a short Chickerneo the blocker de clears the way like a mower in a wheat field and picks up plenty of yardage himself on short bucks in close over center or guard Incidentally both Mad Marshall Marshal and Stebbins have the happy faculty of being able to run equally well wen to the left as the right something right something al aU too few backs can do And listening to grid gossip here bere and nd there High street is very much put out with the way Bo McMillin has baa put Ohio State on the spot by namIng the Bucks as the number one team in the Big Ten this year the nations nation's craziest football thorough thorough- fare in Col Columbus indignantly points to gaping holes in the middle of the Scarlet forward wall and wants to know how Bo gets that way anyway anyway any any- way way 1 Also Ohio State athletic bigwigs are perturbed over the blunder someone made in making out the Bucks' Bucks 1938 schedule which calls for the Scarlet Scourge to meet N. N Y U. U in New York on the same day Army plays Notre Dame Damein in Yankee stadium Lack of a little foresight may cost Bucks Ducks more or less probably more Word from the University of Washington out Seattle way is that Rudy Mucha a bustling sophomore of pounds and very so will be the fullback on the west coast this year hes he's from Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago and Northwestern is still grinding its teeth with rage |