Word: halfbacks
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Penn's first play showed that Harvard's opponents know they can't score conventionally on Harvard. Penn tried a halfback pass, but Finn's duck wobbled incomplete into the mud of Harvard Stadium...
...tone for yesterday's contest was set from the opening kick. In the first four plays of the game, Penn fumbled the opening kick, but recovered, then tossed back to a halfback pass option for its first play from scrimmage, which was defended from its inception and never had a chance of success. After a run for no gain, the Quakers completed a nine yard pass on third-and-10, and were forced to punt the ball away...
...series is indicative of the frustrated, sloppy and desperate manner in which Penn played the game. After mishandling the fundamental kickoff return, the Quakers tried a gimmicky, deceptive halfback pass. That play having failed, the Harvard defense could not help but believe that it was facing a somewhat worried opponent grasping for straws before the game even started...
This came on the behemoth shoulders of sophomore halfback Chris Menick, who himself turned in the second-best rushing performance in Harvard history...
...Throughout, she kept consulting a personal datebook but spoke calmly and with little rancor, even as she reasserted that Marc Zigo was to blame for her downfall. The only show of emotion came after she was asked what position she played in soccer ("I've always been a halfback"). When the next question was Marc Zigo's position, she sighed, closed her eyes and looked down at the floor, shaking her head. Then she looked up and said with bemused disgust, "He's a striker." Excerpts...