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Over and over again, the same plays run, forward and backward, first at normal speed, then in slow motion, then normal again. Ron Cuccia scrambles loose for hours in slow motion, dodging tacklers and hurdling a fallen player for a first down. The Man remembers 1979. The Man is not happy...
...Cuccia has the ball now, running an option right, getting hit and still getting the pitch off to...The Man checks the roster...to Acheson, who goes around end for seven. Got to stop that running game, The Man thinks. Got to stop Cuccia. And Callinan...
After making the shift from flanker to split end during the preseason, to accommodate Ron Cuccia's move to quarterback, Scheper expected to see a lot of balls coming his way. Instead, the team's fastest player (4.55 in the 40) has caught just nine passes through nine games (a rib injury kept him out against Holy Cross), including three for touchdowns. His season was typified by the Princeton game, in which he caught three passes--two of them were nullified by penalties and on the third, an official ruled that he caught the ball out of bounds. Statistically, Scheper...
...pass receiver on a team that runs the ball a lot and runs it well. Harvard head coach Joe Restic has no reservations about the way Scheper has handled split end ("He's done a fine job"), but the combination of a strong running attack and the fact that Cuccia--no dropback passer--hasn't been able to get outside to throw, has kept Scheper running fruitless patterns all year...
...everything," Restic says. "You do the thing you do best, and when you run the ball as much as we do, you can't get the ball out to [the split end] 10 or 15 times a game. We haven't been able to get Cuccia to the outside as well as I thought we would, and you have to get outside to get the ball to that receiver...