Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FINE ART OF FOOTBALL WATCHING (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Michigan State's Coach Duffy Daugherty explains his idea of how to watch football by concentrating on the two "deep backs" in an offensive backfield, on the theory that they are the tip-off to 90% of the action...
...goal, controlling the ball so effectively that the Browns got to run only 16 plays to Green Bay's 35. The stars of that relentless assault were the cripples: Fullback Taylor, Halfback Hornung. In all, Hornung carried 18 times for 105 yds.; Taylor, workhorse of the Green Bay backfield, picked up 96 yds. on 27 carries to earn the game's Most Valuable Player award. When the final gun sounded, it was Hornung and Taylor who hoisted Coach Lombardi to their shoulders, and paraded him off the field. The future might belong to Bonus Babies Grabowski and Anderson...
Junior halfback Bobby Leo was nosed out by Dartmouth's Bob O'Brien for the fourth spot in a backfield that included unanimous selections Bob Hall of Brown Ron Landeck of Princeton, and Bill Wilson of Cornell...
...also gained a first-team position. The team's leading scorer was named to the offensive backfield on the All-Ivy team. Poe and Diamond were chosen for first-team positions on the All-Ivy team...
...double wing, Yale likes to specialize in counter plays such as the scissors and the inside reverse, where a halfback ends up going against the flow of the defense. The holes in the line have usually been there, but the lack of speed in the Yale backfield has resulted in relatively short gains...