Word: galiffa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was nothing Navy could do about the savagery of Army's defense platoon, the precisely explosive blocking of its offense, the smart quarterbacking of All-America Arnold Galiffa. A versatile, 22-year-old ex-G.I. (who is also a baseball infielder and captain of West Point's basketball team), Galiffa bossed the team with easy nonchalance, completed eleven passes, scored one touchdown himself and called on heavy-duty Fullback Gil Stephenson to crash over for three more...
Midnight struck for Fordham's Cinderellas toward the end of the second quarter, when Army's cool, detached Quarterback Arnold Galiffa began heaving touchdown passes-three of them in less than four minutes. In the calmer second half (only four major penalties) Army kept its command. Final score: Army 35, Fordham 0. Despite the score, the Rams had shown enough power to impress the experts; it looked as though Fordham would soon have an outstanding football team if it didn't have one already...
...Plays to Pay Dirt. From its 11-yd. line a few minutes later, grim, white-jerseyed Army began to march. Quarterback Arnold ("The Pope") Galiffa took a knowing look at Michigan's four-man line and tried his pony backfield (Fischl, Cain and Kuckhahn) off the flanks. Michigan's defense, rated the most ingenious in collegiate football, spread out; Galiffa hit the center with a new play (called a "Galiffa keep") designed especially for Michigan. He deftly mixed in three completed passes. In ten plays, Army had a touchdown. At halftime the Cadets had a 14-0 lead...
...Army 38, defensive center Lynn Galloway intercepted a pass and the Cadets were started. Fifteen plays later Gil Stephenson, playing his first full game of the season, bucked over from the four-yard line. The big gains in this drive came on two passes by Arnold Galiffa, to Dan Foldberg and Jim Cain, and a 13-yard run by Karl Kuckhahn...
...kicking because both Charley Roche and Carl Bottenfield had been cocked out of the game in the first six minutes--and Army's Hal Shultz ran it to the Harvard 45. Seven plays later the swiftly-moving Cadets had scored again; this time a fake-pass-and-run by Galiffa (good for 20 yards) and two runs by Jim Cain (8 and 9 yards, the latter to score) did the damage. Jack Mackmull converted for the third time...