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...which the bread-and-butter series centers around the belly play. In its most common form, this play starts as an off-tackle smash by the fullback. The quarterback places the ball in his stomach and "rides" him with a sideward step toward the line of scrimmage. The signal caller can either leave the ball in the fullback's arms or he can pull it out, and run, pass, or hand off to a trailing halfback...
...line plunges by all-Ivy fullback Bill Granz and a pass by signal caller Mike Bassett brought the ball to the Brown seven. Taylor's subsequent score ever left tackle and Hartranft's point after touchdown surprised no one and seemed to set the stage for a Crimson romp...
Chief troublemaker is quarterback Gary Wood. A sharp passer and a more than adequate runner. Wood is the best player on the team and may be the best signal caller in the Ivies. His main difficulty right now is finding suitable receivers for his missiles, as three of his 11 passes last week were dropped...
...Health to the tune of $100,000 a year, the S.P.C. keeps a staff of eight constantly on the alert. Its telephone (CApitol 5-2388) jangles on an average of 2,500 times a year, often with calls from people reporting that a relative or friend-usually meaning the caller himself-is contemplating suicide. At least nine times out of ten an answering psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker or skilled secretary is able to talk the caller out of immediate action and arrange an appointment. Only rarely are the police alerted to trace a phone call and race to the caller...
...wasn't−but it sounded close enough. The caller was Attorney Gillis Long, 39, who is a cousin-type of Huey and of Huey's brother Earl* and "double-third cousin" of Huey's son, Senator Russell Long. Last week Gillis joined the family's highly successful political firm. He won the Democratic primary nomination in Louisiana's Eighth District, unseating Congressman Harold McSween, while Cousin Russell easily got renominated for a third term in the U.S. Senate...