Word: backups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...active, so quick on his feet, so instinctive. The second year, we eased him in carefully, so as not to break him." Breaking Montana seemed a small danger to Assistant Coach Sam Wyche, a man who can speak of the relative gifts handed out to quarterbacks. He was a backup in the N.F.L. for nine years. "Montana made this fake against the Giants," says Wyche, referring to the first playoff victory over New York. "The linebacker was slackjawed. That's some thing you don't coach. You take credit after it's over...
Against the Coast Guard, Lee substituted some of his backup wrestlers, and the Crimson still came away with a lopsided victory. In the best match of the day, freshman Bill Clapps defeated Coast Guard captain Ted Harrap...
...Crowe will have the difficulty of preparing an untested team for battle. Gone are stalwarts like Bob Gaudet and Carey Wilson and in their places...question marks. For instance, freshman Chip Kuzborski will start at goalie, with both Gaudet and backup Jim Jankowski graduated...
Yale fans who have witnessed conventional offense for most of the season will be taken aback by Harvard's quarterback-in-motion play the formation the Crimson uses most frequently to pass. Backup quarterback Donny Allard--agile and strong-armed--takes the snap, former split end Cuccia flares wide. Callinan looks for a screen pass, and referees try to discern if the play is legal. Quite often, the zebras have decided otherwise. Harvard must avoid its perennial propensity for penalties if it is to stay in The Game against the powerful Elis...
...Carr, who wears a leather cowboy hat because, he says, it is easily recognizable and leads to offers of beer when he wanders in the audience, is a fiddler, but he has brought his guitar too. Since there is a shortage of guitarists today, he has agreed to play backup for more than half of the contestants. This means that he will be competing against himself, but this, he says, is commonplace; there is a pleasant quality of neighborliness at fiddlers' contests. He excuses himself to warm up Joe Lecouffe, 76, from Windsor, Vt., who is trying to play...