Word: dropback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson has a few problems passing. Diminutive but slick quarterback Ron Cuccia is too short to be a dropback passer, and has had most of his success of short screens to 1979 Game star Jim Callinan. Though Harvard boasts a pair of strong tight ends--Linus O'Donnell and Bill McGlone--they have accounted for only five receptions all year. Perhaps Harvard coach Joe Restic is saving them as a special surprise for his Yalie counterpart Carm Cozza. Speedy Paul Scheper, the senior wide receiver, has caught only nine passes thus...
...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...
Liberty Bowl, December 27, at Memphis, 8-3 Purdue, led by dropback passer Mark Herrmann, face Missouri (8-3). Give me liberty or give me death. Well, not exactly. We've already seen Herrmann contained, and Missouri is still an unknown entity. Look for Hermann to graduate with a bang...