Word: ball-control
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...Green Bay suffered through an afternoon with the Minnesota Vikings; at the closing gun, the Packers found themselves on the short end of a 10-7 score against a team that had lost four straight. Worse yet was the way Minnesota won-by beating the Packers at their own ball-control brand of football. The Viking offense completed only two passes, chopped out the yardage on the ground; the Viking defense intercepted three Packer passes, stopped Green Bay nine times on third-down situations, and held them to a paltry 42 yds. total rushing...
...will Harvard's offensive wall fare against Cornell? Probably, very well despite spectators' reservations. People forget that Harvard does not pretend to be a ball-control team, the Crimson formations favor end sweeps and quarterback roll-outs rather than inside power plays...
...Ball-control and teamwork gave the Crimson four more tallies in the second quarter and a 5-4 halftime edge over the defending Ivy League titleholders...
Bruce Munro, in his 18 years as Crimson coach, has parlayed a short-passing, ball-control game to the best overall record in Ivy League competition. Harvard's style counts on skillful dribbling and precision passing between wings, insides, and halfbacks to set up scoring opportunities...
...Princeton game started sluggishly, with both teams playing cautious ball-control basketball, and after 14 minutes of play the score was only 17-17. Then Sedlacek took over. He scored twice in two minutes on three point plays, hit a long jumper and three foul shots to put Harvard in front at halftime, 36 to 25. Sedlacek had 20 points during the first half...