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After Whiting's try, Harvard's offense exploded with strong work in the scrum and brilliant backfield passing combinations...
...State) the guy on the field, the ice or the hardcourt gets lost. Big-time football, big-time money, who cares that Oklahoma is on probation and won't play post-season this year because of recruiting violations or that it is no mean feat to graduate a starting backfield...
...State, 6 ft. 1 in., 202 Ibs., and (17) WILLIAM ("BO") MATTHEWS, Colorado, 6 ft. 2 in., 219 Ibs. The scouts' eyes are popping over Green. "He's the type who can make a weaker pro franchise into a contending club," they say. Blasting out of the backfield as if he were fired from a bazooka, Green has darted through defenders for 1,182 yds. this season. Matthews is a big powerful runner who rolls over rather than around tacklers. But his greatest attraction to the pros is his blocking prowess: "This man dominates a game whether...
...suddenly fell on his face, tripped by an overwrought fan. For the most part, the play is livelier than in the U.S. because the rules are different. The fields are 10 yds. longer and 12 yds. wider, leaving far more space for the running game. Unlimited motion in the backfield makes it harder to defend against the run. The deeper end zone (25 yds. v. 10 yds. in the U.S.) allows attacking teams a chance to run full-throttle pass patterns from inside the 20-yd. line. Because a team has only three downs instead of four in which...
Admittedly there were some amusing moments in the last three quarters: the announcer's pro-Yale bias and inability to pronounce Tsitsos ("See-tus") and Harvard's comical attempt at a reverse with both Milt Holt and Stoeckel in the backfield...