Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overall strategy that places too much importance on defense, and an in ability to adjust when the defense collapses or is badly threatened...
...Tigers have serapped their disturbingly-successful single wing system this fall. and installed a basic "T" formation with MacBean as quarterback. It took them almost a month to adjust to it sufficiently. and in the process, they lost to both Rutgers and Colgate, and had to rally to defend a Cornell squad that at the time had little more than tailback Ed Marinaro...
...combination was once unbeatable-Princeton's fine material using a system that nearly every other college had abandoned years ago. A coach could not hope to adjust his defense in a week's time, and he was often left with a painful dilemma. Should he drastically revamp his defensive alignment to stop Princeton, and take a chance that his squad might not be able to return to its regular system a week later...
...their eyes adjusted to the darkly inked surfaces, changes in detail emerged. And eventually a row of five landscapes neatly placed on the wall, like copies of a photograph, dissembled before the viewers into individual images, each with its own mood. It became clear that without changing the basic design, an artist can adjust the components of ink paper or line and produce an image of different quality...
Smith's return next Saturday will help the first problem. The second is something Harvard has had to live with since September, and now that fullback Gus Crim is sidelined for the season with an injured kidney, will have to adjust to for the remainder of the fall. But the lack of imagination has bothered Harvard's offense all fall, and unless coach John Yovicsin allows his quarterbacks to open up the Crimson attack, there is little chance that the offense will carry its share of the burden...