Word: blaik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Professor: Football school bells are ringing this morning, gentlemen, and we have an eager responsive group of pupils waiting. First of all, let's bring Red Blaik of Dartmouth up to the head of the class. I'm on a see-saw and don't know whether he's up or down, but win or lose, his was the best coaching job last Saturday. Come on up and tell...
...Blaik: Last week when we lost to Princeton I said that it was the toughest defeat we ever took since I've come to Dartmouth. We out-gained the Tigers six to one and still took it on the chin when Allerdice kept hitting the bull's-eye with his passes. Our pass defense was much better against Cornell, and, of course, the weather didn't help their passes...
Coach Dick Harlow has shared the worries of Blaik on this same score. What holes his capable line has lifted in the enemy forward bulwarks the backfield has been slow to take advantage of. No hip-maneuvering speed merchants have as yet appeared on the Crimson Varsity...
...offset this weakness on the ground, both Blaik and Harlow have gone into huddles with themselves and have come out with the same resolution, PASSING. For the Crimson mentor this has meant two shifts in the starting lineup. Last year's Yardling captain, Don McNicol, who is reputed to sling a mean aerial, has been inserted into the starting lineup in place of Charley "The Baron" Spreyer at tailback and Covina, California's Jack Morgan, another newcomer to the Varsity, has taken over the left end slot from Joe Kouman. According to reports from the Charles River practice turf, Morgan...
...Green, Sophomore Ray Wolfe has up to this point carried the offensive responsibilities almost single-handed. Currently the No.1 chukker on Blaik's eleven, he also is dangerous as a pass-snarer, having scored against Yale on a 40-yard pass completion. With Wolfe and Dale Bartholomew, another Junior wingback, Blaik thinks he has a substantial passing threat...