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Word: counterflow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play out of the playbook he has memorized, and we could lose." Counting variations on basic tactics, there are approximately 100 plays in the Dolphin book and each season between 5% and 10% are abandoned. In recent years the Dolphins have dropped quick screen passes and a series of counterflow running plays in which the ball carrier fakes a step in one direction and runs in the other. Two or three new plays are usually added every year, and some marginally successful tactics are revised. The Dolphins' most successful new plays in the past few years have been those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dolphins in Drydock | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

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