Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threw what looked like a sure incompletion. It bounced off several hands, including those of Thompson and at least three Crimson defenders, and was caught by a very surprised Roger Cirone. Cirone ran the 10 yards to the goal untouched, and Rohrbach added the conversion on a beautiful fake and a sweep around...
...Saturday, after a first-half scoring pass to Tom Boone, Bartolet engineered a long Crimson march in the third period. He made several brainy calls, including two fake punt formations in a row and a draw play with Larry Repsher carrying...
Around this basic maneuver Schwartzwalder has built a system of plays that unfold with the relentless logic of a theorem in geometry. "We keep slamming that fullback off-tackle, and the defense has to bunch up to stop us. So the quarterback will fake the ball to the fullback and run outside himself, or pitch out to the tailback who's trailing him. Now they've got to bring up their secondary. That leaves them weak for option passes thrown by the tailback...
Method for Mayhem. "When a fullback like Jimmy Brown of the Cleveland Browns breaks loose up the middle." says Patton in discussing the science of the safety man, "I don't watch his head. He can fake me with his head. I watch his belt buckle, and I keep my eye on it, just the way a batter watches a baseball. He can't wiggle that belt buckle. I get down low enough to get below his shoulder and try to hit him headon. It's easy enough to get to Brown's belly. Holding...
...receiver will have only one clear path. At the snap of the ball, the two men start a routine as formal yet as frantic as a minuet in oldtime flicker films. Running backward all the while, Patton must counter the receiver's maneuvers without falling for a fake. To avoid head, arm and hip fakes. Patton watches a spot roughly in the vicinity of the receiver's wishbone, on the sound theory that it will turn when the receiver himself turns and begins to cut. "Then," says Patton, "you've got to react fast. If he gets...