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...Hickman, in addition to being a coast-to-coast radio entertainer, a prize after dinner speaker, and the acknowledged poet laureate of the Great Smokies, is also a very good football coach. In 1943, when Earl Blaik was looking for the "best line coach in America," it was Hickman who went to West Point and had much to do with the success of the wartime Army teams...
...outstanding defensive strategist, Hickman has been recognized as a shrewd offensive technician as well since replacing Howie Odell at Yale. Last winter, he worked out the details of his split-T formation offense, which was introduced at fall practice and used successfully up until last Saturday. The split-T involves a half back, stationed well outside the end, who becomes a man-in-motion threading his way through the backfield on practically every play. This system is well-suited to tricky reverses and laterals, for the wingback can either take a hand off from one of the other backs, fake...
Against Princeton, Hickman came up with a short punt formation on which Stuart Tisdale, the quarterback, received the ball directly from center and proceeded to pass. Bob Spears, the fullback, and Ed Senay, the left halfback, gave Tisdale excellent protection and since this formation included a third end as right halfback (situated on the wing), Tisdale has three good targets. Against Princeton, he preferred the right halfback, who was Ray Bright...
Tisdale is one of five experienced players around whom Hickman has had to build this 1950 team, since graduation cleaned him out of 35 lettermen. This loss represents the entire guard corps, all but one of eight ends, and 11 out of 12 halfbacks. Gone are such men as Jackson, Nadherny, Frank, and Jablonski, and in their places are Senay, Spears, Rowe, and Merriman...
...senior tackles, Joe Finnegan and Walt Clemens, anchor the line and since they are Hickman's defenders as well as his best offensive men at their positions, they play both ways. Finnegan, a 189-pound New Haven townic, has had hard luck in the form of a broken leg in 1947, and an appendectomy in 1948, but managed to become a regular last fall. Clemens, at 187, was one of the original "Seven Dwarfs" of the 1949 line...