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Show BACKFIELD LINE MAKES PENN STATE SPARKLE JjJJMg- 1 , L CjRITT JTB Bl I.ORRV JACOBS . E. A. staff Correspondent, NEW YORK Why has Penn State tsuccooded so well this J ear in spit 'of the fact that veterans wero as 'scarce as tickets for a Big Three fool-ball fool-ball game? Of course we mean why i besides the fact that I'eim State bus a 'Hugo Bezdek and a Dick ll.nlow to coach the team. Apparentlv the answer is because Penn State HAS A HA' K FIELD LINE. .Jl UGLKS PLA1 EK6 I That's a gueer one Isn't it? But it's la fact Bezdok and Harlow have llt-I llt-I Orally juggled tliolr team around until i no one would recognize the players i who saw them in what was. consldored I their regular positions. When l',-zdek siaffd in to manufac-Iture manufac-Iture a football team this year that Wouldn't be defeated, he found that In-had In-had about 28 backfleld men and three 'linesmen. So, following bis belief that It takes 1 1 men to make a football team and that football is football no 1 matter where a man plays, he proceeded pro-ceeded to dump almost hifl entire ibackfielil Into thr linn B 17 DISK'S REASONING'. ' "Its harder to play in the back-! back-! field thin It Is In the lino." said Hugo. I "And therefore a b.irkfleld man ought l to make a com lineman if he Is given th'- ris;h( kind of ichlng " I Hugo v:;x apparentlv right Captain Cap-tain Hess and Berk were Slipped Into jthc line at tackle and guard. That Was about half of ins problem solved, jfur he already had Rauch, a veteran I for one place. W T( DING Hl l Then ho looked around and found Bed Griffith, also reputed to be a I backfleld man, and dumped him into lanother place at guard Red. In splt-'of splt-'of home troubles and illness in his I family, 1p so eood that Walter Camp 'and all the oth r All A m. rlean fans are squinting his direction every time Penn State plays. j Then there we- Schuster and Boer-i Boer-i Likewise they were taught all the , funda mentaio of line work by Dick Harlow and they proved to be In the right places. I WJBAK ENDS. It must be admitted that Hugo hasn't had so much lu k with his ends, ;but he inanag's to get along anyway Having accomplished all this, Bez-dek Bez-dek thou had the Job of rounding out jhls backfleld and he apparently had no trouble nt all with this for he has THREES men who are being jerked into the hall of football fame without I any trouble. WAV SI IPPER- Charley Way, of course, although he I has giv en a few disappointing peiform-lances. peiform-lances. is a luminary that no one can ) Rod Griffith la nn example r n backfleld man being shifted into the hue and b eomliig n -,tar The PeSU) stale line K COIttpOfled of other ivliop m rs Who Wore back- prior tO this '-.;r. Bui that :sn t .ill Coach Bcodck has lie s nut -utne backfleld backs, tun llalncfl is one of the ix-t hair bocks in uniform this seaaon ami Way Is jnsi nb.Mit as DOWOrfn) .disregard. Way haa relish ways that have accounted for more than one touchdown this year, Including the 'm ili.-it saved Penn State from defeat by Lehigh. He doesn't weigh much, but he's certainly always in the way When some one on the opposing team starts for a touchdown. BJ VRT Ql UOT1 R , But more surprising than Wy. of Whom much was expected, have been Hink.v Haines and Wllllnger the Star1 lunrterbnck. Haines has outshown Aav twhe largely because Wnj wan so closely watched, but he deserves full credit, nevertheless nd Killlnger well. alter ''amp said a few davs ago that next year ho and all his cohorts w ould be k... ping their eyes glued on Killlnger as a field general I So that's that. Kr1K.''.l!,7,;v,."v p:iys to hav 8 BACK-IELD BACK-IELD LINE and then some more inocks lor the backfleld. |
