Word: flankers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could have had more. A junior at the University of Wisconsin, Reichardt, 21, batted .472 for the Badgers this spring, winning the Big Ten batting championship for the second straight year (last year's average: .429). As if that weren't enough, he was a star flanker back in football, and one pro scout called him "a sure No. 1 draft choice" if he played out his senior year. Reichardt is also a psychology major, and he must have stayed wide awake in some of his classes...
Both teams should have profited from the week's postponement. Harvard was given valuable time for four injured regulars to recover, and Yale was able to devote additional practices to converting its defenses from the single wing threats of Penn and Princeton to the flanker-T of the Crimson...
Howard was supposed to be a permanent flanker under the Dynamic System. One day Pont made a running back out of him and made the pleasant discovery that the 165-pounder can run with the ball...
...pounds, but he is "the complete pro prospect-with the instinctive savvy to do the right things and be in the right places." Pittsburgh's Paul Martha, 21 (6 ft. 1 in., 184 lbs.), is almost certain to be drafted in the first round as a flanker or a defensive halfback...
...formations, except the regular T, one of the backfield men, the "flanker," stations himself just behind his own line. This secures two advantages. First, the flanker is in a better position to block than in the regular T, since he is closer to the line of scrimmage. Second, whenever the offense realigns its manpower, the defense must counter with an equal adjustment. Otherwise, the team running the ball will barrel through a spot where the opposition is undermanned. In the flanker T formation, six men are on one side of the center; the defense must make a similar six-five...