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...moved from offense to defense with the return of platoon football this season. Signal caller for the defensive secondary, he led the Crimson in pass interceptions with five, and handled 16 punt returns. He made several spot appearances as an offensive halfback late in the season when the Crimson suffered a rash of injuries at that post...
Cozza roomed with Pont for four years at Miami of Ohio, played quarterback when his roommate was setting a school rushing record at halfback, and was Pont's top assistant at both Miami and Yale. The style of football played at the Bowl this season, then, is much the same as spectators saw in Harvard Stadium last year, with slight variations due to changes in personnel...
...beginning of the year, Yale operated out of the basic split-T with an end split ten yards to one side and a halfback flanked to the other side. Soon, however, Cozza and his staff realized that opposing teams were concentrating their defenses on the side of Yale's tight end, where most of the running plays were directed. This concentration combined with the loss of powerful fullback Chuck Mercein virtually neutralized the Yale ground game during the first part of the season...
...double wing (employed frequently by Dartmouth's Bob Blackman) brings the split end in next to the tackle where his blocking ability can be utilized, and flanks both halfbacks outside the end leaving the fullback as a single setback. A halfback usually goes in motion before the ball is snapped, giving the whole setup more versatility...
...double wing, Yale likes to specialize in counter plays such as the scissors and the inside reverse, where a halfback ends up going against the flow of the defense. The holes in the line have usually been there, but the lack of speed in the Yale backfield has resulted in relatively short gains...