Word: crimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...putting up a game fight against a superb Cornell squad. But the grandstand quarterback didn't see it that way. First he started working over the coaches, as if he expected Art Valpey to rush off the bench and single-handedly half the Big Red tide. But when the Crimson made a good gain on a tricky play, the coach never got credit for devising the play and teaching the team how to execute...
Coach Bruce Munro's Crimson, which has beaton Tufts and lost to Cornell, will probably be a slight favorite. Last year's Amherst game went to Harvard, 3 to 0, and since then each team has lost about equally through graduation...
...that Harvard should have used more end runs. Now look at the facts. Cornell has one of the fastest teams in the country. That means that backer-ups should be able to get to the flanks quickly to squelch end runs. On the Harvard side of the picture, the Crimson's one breakaway runner, Hal Moffie, was out of action. And two men who must throw crucial blocks on end-around plays, quarterback Bill Henry and running guard Howie Houston, were playing despite injuries which slowed them up and made it difficult for them to carry out their assignments...
...much yardage through the air as on the ground (187 to 91). In fact, lack of defense against short passes was just about the only weakness Cornell showed. It was this that led Valpey to make short passes the key to his "game plan," and the fine showing the Crimson made certainly bore out Valpey's analysis...
...Crimson tomorrow will counter with a somewhat revised group of forwards. Second-string Jim Johnson, outstanding in the Cornell game, has been boosted way up to starting center forward. The former occupant of this position, Jon Spivak, will move over to inside right, and second-stringer Ted Wolf will start at outside right...