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...defensive backfield, without the benefit of a single returning starter, has held up so far. But Columbia's quarterback couldn't throw well enough to provide a real test and UMass found it necessary to pass only four times...
...help but think of the Bubba Smith commercial. Bubba, not a bad defensive end himself a few years back, now sells Lite beer from Miller. "When I used to play," Bubba says, "I'd tackle the entire backfield and throw out the guys I didn't need." Now Bubba doesn't need calories, hence the Lite beer...
Russ Savage has never tackled an entire backfield. In his two years and two games on the Crimson varsity, though, he has made his share of stops. Enough to earn him second-team All-Ivy honors a year ago, and enough to get the publicity this time around--finally, after playing for two years in relative obscurity...
...course, with a name like Savage what did you expect him to do? Tackle the entire backfield...
...pretty hard for a quarterback to look good when his runners keep getting stopped in the backfield and he's a marked man every time he drops back to pass, but the sad fact is that neither of the Crimson helmsmen looked capable of being anything but a victim to those circumstances...