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Quarterbacking, Lamar believes, is the most difficult job on a team. He lets his quarterbacks call most of the plays from the field, sending in instructions occasionally. "A quarterback has to know every assigment on the team and must decide how to capitalize on defensive weaknesses...
Offensive power depends on "how hard and fat the team runs," Lamar continues, pointing out that this includes interference as well as ball carriers. Constant running is the only way to acquire this power, he claims and so his teams seldom move from one field to another at a walk...
Each Freshman practice session concludes with the backfield racing up and down the length of the practice field three or four times and the linemen pushing Lamar and an assistant around on the dummy blocking frame to avoid the natural practice "slump...
Back in 1931 Lamar married a Radcliffe alumna and now has two daughters, rapid Harvard fans, at home in Belmont. In '37 he found time to go to B. U. Law school at night but did not complete the course...
...three and a quarter hour session, the Varsity exercised by drilling on pass defense, catching the forward throws of James Kenary and others, tightening defensive maneuvers against two of Henry Lamar's yearling teams using Yale plays, and punting...