Word: handoffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic play is a handoff by one of the two quarterbacks. Bill Arthur and Rick Furbush. to Marinaro, who selects the biggest hole he can find and runs through it. This strategy is used because of coach Jack Musick's great confidence in Marinaro's ability to find running room...
...film's difficulties is that it seems to be twice removed from reality. Plimpton's sly, unobtrusive narration allowed the reader to feel for himself the manifold agonies of the professional athlete: the pain of learning how to merge head with helmet, the humiliation of fumbling a handoff, the confusion of trying to study a playbook crammed with inscrutable diagrams. The movie gives Alan Alda the doubly difficult task of playing the role of Plimpton the sophisticated writer who is playing the role of Plimpton the ten-thumbed quarterback. Alda looks enough like George-and is clearly...
...next time Harvard got the ball, Lalich took a double handoff in the backfield and fired a 23-yard pass to Pete Varney. Varney broke two tackles and followed the Gatto track to the goal. Wynne got another...
...Neither offensive line (first or second unit) was overpowering. Lalich, Champi and Smith spent most of their time dodging tacklers. With this in mind, Yovicsin is making liberal use of an old favorite: an inside handoff to a halfback who then gives it back to the quarter-back, keeping the defense honest and giving receivers time to get downfield...
Miami, Jan. 8, 1969-The Green Bay Packers today defeated the Oakland Raiders 6-0, in the third annual Super Bowl game at Miami's Orange Bowl. The winning touchdown was scored by the Packers' general manager, Vince Lombardi, who took a handoff from Publicity Director Chuck Lane with two minutes to go and scuttled six yards around left end with his aloha shirt flapping. A crowd of 17 fans turned out for the game, which was blacked out on nationwide TV. There was some fear that the game might have to be postponed when beer vendors refused...