Word: halfbacks
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...Haven, the Harvard football team this Saturday turned in a performance which did its university proud. Battling the evil Eli for the 104th time, with the Ivy title on the line for only the fourth, the Crimson warriors came away with a 14-10 victory. Led by junior halfback Tony Hinz, who scored both Harvard touchdowns, and a fearsome defensive front seven, the Crimson--picked by most pre-season pundits to finish near the bottom of the Ancient Eight--captured its first Ivy crown since 1983 and its first outright title since...
...been great," said the 24-year coach of the Elis. "The quarterback's great, the halfback's great, the wing-back's great, the tailback's great, the flanker's great, and the split end's great...
Although Schwartzwalder does tend to mention unbalanced lines, eight-man blocking fronts and halfback option passes, most of his stories are about ball carriers, a sequence of unbelievable runners, all of them wearing No. 44. "Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little," he says with a snap in his voice, though his own number now is 78. "They never knew what they did. They just did it. Perfect instincts. Larry Csonka's instinct was to drop his shoulder and run over you. That worked too." Because Csonka started as a lineman, he never wore 44. Joe Morris was offered the number...
After the next play--a run up the middle--was negated by a penalty, the Cross elected to try a halfback option pass. Lockbaum, the Cross' Heisman Trophy candidate, raced right with a Wiley pitch and then hit Crusader tight end Randy Pedro in the endzone...
Holy Cross scored again four minutes later when halfback-flanker-cornerback Gordie Lockbaum, promoted as "Heisman Trophy candidate Goride Lockbaum," took a hand-off at the Harvard 10, danced around left end, and made a beautiful cut-back to prance untouched into the endzone for his 17th touchdown of the season...