Word: downfield
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When Harvard took the second-half kickoff and began moving downfield smoothly, visions of "Buchanan the Saviour" flashed through the stadium. Using the option from a power-I formation, Buchanan worked with his backs, almost perfectly...
...They had an overload of defensive players on us and we had a lot of trouble guarding the extra players downfield," Cornman said yesterday...
STAUBACH: "You have a camera and it's focused downfield. All the other is a blur-the hands, the people, the movement-but your point of focus is beyond them. If you stare at the closer stuff so that you actually see a guy's arm or hand, then you're in trouble. There's an antenna, a sixth sense, inside you that directs the ball past the guy's hands...
...offense packed the scoring punch of a geriatrics ward. Having nowhere to go but up, Bennett installed a "Big Ben" play -for desperate situations when the clock was running out. With 19 seconds to go against New Orleans last week, Quarterback Steve Bartkowski called Big Ben. Three receivers rushed downfield, dogged by a battalion of defensive backs. Bartkowski lofted the ball, and what looked like four dozen arms groped for it. Atlanta's Wallace Francis tipped it to Teammate Alfred Jackson for the winining touchdown. Afterward Beninett told stunned sportswriters: "We work on that play in practice. We just...
...second half, Pleasant Valley controls the game, driving inside Palmerton's 20-yd. line, but fails to score. Late in the third period, a touchdown pass is called back when an official spots an ineligible receiver downfield. "We need a touchdown," Dr. Verbruggen growls. But he wants the Bears to score for a special reason. "When kids get discouraged, their reflexes aren't sharp. They run at somebody halfheartedly. That's when they get hurt. It's even worse with younger kids. If it were up to me, I would eliminate all peewee and junior high...