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...rotund Tennessean takes considerable pressure off his squad by assuming it himself. Hickman has been in New Haven for only half a year and is fast becoming a legend. His prodigious appetite, his great girth, the license plate that says "HICK," and the famous stories about the folks back home all eat up news inches, while the Yale team forges ahead undisturbed by the intense light of relentless publicity...
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...Herman Hickman brought with him from Army the T formation, and found the T formation already entrenched at Yale. The differences between the Odell T and the Hickman version are slight, yet somewhat significant...
...Howard Odell's system the bucking backs were at right and left halfback, while the end runner and passer is at fullback. Hickman, like Red Blaik, calls for one bucking back at fullback and two running and passing halfbacks. The accent on running and passing halfbacks is just another indication that both at Harvard and Yale football is becoming more and more pure offense...
Second, Odell used more quick-opening plays, while Hickman employs considerable single wing blocking with his plays. Herman reflects the experience of Red Blaik at Army that a well drilled team need not lose deception by slower-opening plays, which use more dependable single wing blocking...