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...Kubacki knows how to play with pain," Restic said. "Just take a look at last year's Brown game. But the loss of Kinchen will be extremely tough to overcome. He gave us a balance in the backfield which will be very tough to replace...
Mark Taylor will try to do that job on Saturday, joining Tommy Winn and Chris Doherty in the backfield behind Kubacki. Taylor has been plagued this season with shoulder problems, though he will be 100 per cent for Saturday's game...
Offensively for Yale, the name of the game is John Pagliaro, though Restic cautions against overlooking his backfield running mates John Hatem and Mike Southworth. "They're well balanced in the backfield. Southworth is a very good runner, and he opens things up for Pagliaro. Their option pitch play is made effective because they all can run with the ball...
...little-known Washington and Jefferson College into the 1922 Rose Bowl, where the heavily favored University of California barely managed to hold the Easterners to a scoreless tie. Widely credited with developing the man-to-man defense, the triple and fake reverse, Neale went on to handle the Yale backfield under Head Coach "Ducky" Pond until 1941, when he took charge of the hapless Philadelphia Eagles. Neale rebuilt the team from football's perennial doormats into two-time National Football League champions (1948-49) and in 1967 was elected to football's Hall of Fame...
Harvard's other pair of ends--Mitch Berger and Joe Mackey--shut down any semblance of a ground game with awesome play. Penn tried to take Dartmouth's cue and run the option, but both Berger and Mackey met Vaughn deep in the backfield. "That's the only way to play it--hit him," Berger said after the game. "That way, he'll hesitate a bit before he considers coming my way again." With his brand of friendly persuasion, Berger caused two fumbles, one of which was recovered by Mackey...