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Quarterback Bassett will direct the team as it seeks to extend its five game winning streak, Bill Taylor, second team All-Ivy last year, will be at right half, and should provide some exciting running and maybe even a pass now and then...
...case last year, this season the Crimson's biggest threat will be on running plays. Quarterback Mike Bassett is a good running quarterback, and he knows how to utilize the talents of his backfield, which includes such proven line crashers as Bill Grana and Scott Harshbarger, and break away specialists Hobie Armstrong, Bill Taylor, and Hank Hatch...
...Bassett will probably do his passing from a roll-out pattern (giving him a chance to run if this proves expedient), while Humenuk and Bartolet will tend to drop back and hurl longer missiles. As the season progresses, halfbacks Taylor and Harshbarger, and maybe even fullback Grana might be doing some passing. If such a situation materializes, and if the line can provide the necessary blocking and pass protection, the Harvard attack, potentially explosive on the ground or in the air, will be difficult to defense...
Harvard is also fond of the "outside belly" or "ride" series, perfected at Oklahoma by Bud Wilkenson. The key man in the series is the quarterback, and Bassett excells in this type of work. In the play, when run from the basic-T, the fullback and the right half-back both plunge toward the tackle. The left half-back runs wide to the right and parallel to the line of scrimmage. The quarterback takes the snap and thrusts the ball into the belly of the fullback (giving the series its name). He has the option of letting the fullback keep...
...elects to retrieve it from the fullback's stomach, he can either attempt to crack the line himself, or drop back for a pass. Bassett, who has the agility to spin from tackler's grasp, does well on the "keeper...