Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twice in the second quarter, capitalizing on intercepted passes and fumbles by the Elis' league-leaders to push over a T.D. and a safety. Austie Lyne plunged over for six points after passes to Dave Abbot and Eddie Carrol and an end sweep by George Golphin had brought the ball...
Brawn and speed may have meant the difference but the undercurrent of strategy worked out on practice fields in New Haven and Cambridge this fall predetermined the action and turned the ballgame into an offensive battle. Neither team had much trouble moving the ball as the Crimson unveiled a series of new maneuvers involving sweeps and cutbacks while Blue pulverized with variations of their standard stuff, mostly effected by a pair of backs named Jackson and Nadherny neither of whom looked very injured...
Crimson players thought the Blue line "wasn't as big and didn't hit as hard as last year" but the backs were just as hard to stop. As the tackles and the guards once again played close to 60-minute ball, they were accompanied by left end Wally Flynn who stayed in for close to 55 minutes without having his end turned. Howie Houston, from his left tackle position, made more stops than any other Crimson lineman, and Yale thought him one of the best tackles they had faced all season...
With the season now over and the coaches getting home at nights for the first time in weeks, Harlow commented on how critical his center situation had been. With Chuck Glynn carrying his arm in a cast, John Florentine had to enter every ball game to pass the long ones to the kickers. "This in itself weakened us terribly," Harlow said, "since no deception was possible. Everyone in the world know when we were going to kick...
...forward Jack Calkins had scored the normal aggressiveness of the Cantab rugby-footballers waned temporarily. A fleeting spark of the form they displayed against a smooth Princeton bunch returned five minutes later as outer Bill Dawson bounced a high pass to John Spivak, who headed it into the opposition ball basket...