Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Princeton to the single wing. "With a man in motion, a play can always explode," is the opinion of one of the device's fathers, Coach Harlow. The resulting strain on the ingenuity of the defensive secondary lines is tremendous, and they must always overcome the tendency to commit themselves before the play unravels. If the safety loses a step to a man in motion, on the other hand, he can lose the ball game...
...loss of the season, Coach MacDonald's team abandoned its game and tried to beat the Indians at their own plays. "Every year we seem to play our worst game against Dartmouth," MacDonald says. "Maybe some day we'll learn that the way to beat them is not to commit modified kinds of assault and battery on the playing field." The team now seems to accept the doctrine. One more game will tell...
...happy. That's their motto. But dammit, there's no easy road to learning." His masters, who sir him as the students do, conduct their classes with Victorian formality, emphasize the Scriptures, Greek and Latin: Boys who break minor rules are punished by extra work. Those who commit more serious offenses get a caning in the headmaster's office...
...abundance of personalities makes the book an entertaining study. They participate in significant and generally amusing incidents that are friendly even when they show the Bostonians' aplomb in a seamy or mundane light. Mr. Amory does not commit the error of falling into satire, nor does he treat his subject with the glazed veneration that a member of the breed might easily have done. Instead, in the chapter entitled "Change and Status Quo," he sums up the pros and cons of having such a group, and indicates the transformations that time has wrought...
...sight. Which brings us to the question of why Virginia was penalized three times for delaying the game. Just think of yourself in quarterback McCary's brogans during those huddles. When the boys asked him what the next play was, he couldn't very well come out and commit himself in such an environment of lucid confusion...