Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yovicsin has been generally pleased with the offensive play (75 points, 876 total yards in two games: what more?) and cites the two tackles, Steve Diamond and Bob Brooks, as two principal reasons that the line has been providing running room...
...permissiveness. The "psychosomatic" cold and eating to "compensate" have become part of folklore. Pop-psych even appears on the sports page, as when a feature writer for New York's new World Journal Tribune gets a psychiatrist to describe baseball as a ritual performed in a crib (the diamond) and dominated by an elevated father figure (the pitcher on his mound...
...strength of the offensive line last week is all the more amazing when you realize that both guards, Al Bersin and Bob Flanagan, and center Joe O'Donnell, are all green. Yovicsin gives a lot of credit to tackles Bob Brooks and Steve Diamond, who not only ripped giant holes in the defense, but called offensive blocking signals as well. This "line-quarter-backing" is important when you play a team that does a lot of stunting, like Lafayette...
...fifth violinist's teeth are gold. So is a sculpture above the stage that looks like a cubist's idea of a squatting giraffe. In the old Met, the gold was dark, worked and decorated; here it is plain and so bright it hurts the eyes. Little diamond mustaches are affixed to the boxes. And there are more star-shaped chandeliers. Clearly, someone got up one morning out of his Procrustean bed with the idea of shaping the place like the old Met, but clothing it to look like...
...line, where it really counts, end Joe Cook contributed a great deal more than a circus catch of a desperation Zimmerman delivery. The tackles, Bob Brooks and Steve Diamond, were the stalwarts of the line, however. Guards Al Bersin and Bob Flangan and center Joe O'Donnell, all newcomers, handled their outweighed Lafayette counterparts on the line well...