Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Offensive power depends on "how hard and fat the team runs," Lamar continues, pointing out that this includes interference as well as ball carriers. Constant running is the only way to acquire this power, he claims and so his teams seldom move from one field to another at a walk...
American colleges such as Army, Princeton and Dartmouth play a football-type of game emphasizing bodily contact, speed and long boots. MacDonald decries brutish methods. "You can't win a ball game without controlling the ball," Mac says, "and booting the ball all over the field and banging into peaople doesn't help you get the ball into scoring position...
MacDonald's method is teamwork and the short pass. His dream is to see the Crimson take the ball all the way down the field and deposit it in the goal without letting an opponent touch the spheroid. "That's the way we used to do it in the Leagues...
Captain Mavor, Dave Ogden, and Don Louria, the starting halfbacks, set up the plays and unlike most college soccer players are likely to pass instead of socking the ball far in front of the forwards. Mike Scully and Tom Burrowes have developed into capable, sure fullbacks and both have been invited to the Olympic tryouts in Troy on Sunday along with Potter and Aguirre...
After concentrating hard on pass defense, the team worked until dusk on punting under pressure. Besides Wally Flynn, who has done most of the game kicking this fall, Chuck Roche, Chip Gannon, and Gibby Warren were booting the ball...