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...when John Spagnola wrestled Pat O'Brien's wing-and-a-prayer aerial from the hands of Harvard's Fred Cordova, the very sou! of Crimson football winced at the mortal wound. Cordova dropped to the turf in a heap, unable to move under the weight of the crushing frustration...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: The Game: Not Quite Enough Is Common Theme | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

...they did it quickly, with an aerial attack that left the clock virtually unmoved. And that, in 1978, hurt Harvard's hopes for success because the defense had to play the bulk of the game...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: The Game: Not Quite Enough Is Common Theme | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

This team had its shortcomings, both offensively and defensively. But both parts of the team proved themselves more than capable. Harvard, on Saturday, could have used Yale's methodical running game to keep its defense alert and fresh. Larry Brown's aerial brilliance just put his defensemen back on the field too soon...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: The Game: Not Quite Enough Is Common Theme | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

Brown already holds three Harvard records, two of them game marks he set last year in his aerial bombardment of Penn. In that contest he passed for 349 yards, while accumulating 375 yards total offense. In addition, Brown broke Kubacki's career passing record against Brown two weeks...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: Brown Closes In On Passing Marks, May Pass Kubacki | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

...parachuting is based on forming intricate patterns of falling bodies in the sky. At Zephyrhills, teams of four, eight, ten, 16 and 20 jumpers go through from one to six formations in sequence during their 55 sec. of free fall from 12,500 ft. They perform a kind of aerial ballet, creating doughnuts and diamonds, wedges and stars. The jumpers carefully rehearse their maneuvers, choreographing the sequences on paper, then running through them over and over on the ground, in what are called "dirt dives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Catch a Falling Snowflake | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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