Word: handoffs
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Price was not exceptionally deceptive, but he seemed to be able to fool the Crimson without even trying. Once, for instance, he ran a play which started as a straight handoff to Hansen. But for some reason, Hansen neither took the ball nor faked receiving it. So Price, left with the ball, sailed off around right end for 35 yards. Only a fine stop by Wylie, the last man, saved a touchdown...
When Pravda, the loud-yapping signal-caller of Communist journalism, recently blasted U.S. college football as the brutal product of predatory capitalists, i.e., college trustees, Sportwriter Nat Low of Los Angeles' Communist People's World took the handoff and scampered down the field with the ball...
Pollard, a devastating fullback, would get up from the ground shaking his head. On one play, a Navy end was planted in the Army backfield just as Pollard took a handoff and was prepared to start around end. And it was Pollard, withal Army's meet Successful ground gainer, who was indirectly responsible for Navy's first touchdown. Instead of falling on an errant pitchout by Blaik, he kept trying to pick the ball up until finally Middle Captain Tom Bakke broke through and recovered the ball. It was a key play, and Pollard handled it poorly, but then army...
...either case, the "X" back can be a man in motion; or he can slant across, receive a handoff from the quarterback, and go over the left tackle of Brown's balanced line...
Brown will certainly have to depend on its own passing game as well as the strong running plays which can develop from the "X-T." On one of those, the "X" back (right-half) cuts diagonally across into the left side of the line. The quarterback fakos a handoff, and then gives to the fullback, who has charged straight over right guard...