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...Lamar fused the Freshman and Jayvee squads under the wartime rulings that allowed Freshmen to play on Varsity teams, and when Harlow joined the Navy in 1943, Lamar enjoyed two years as head coach of the highly informal eleven. Last year, after more time working with the Varsity line, he returned to his Freshman job. Today, he has been at Harvard longer than any other football coach...
...might be expected from a dozen years of association, Lamar is an ardent disciple of Dick Harlow. "I learned most of my football around here with Dick," he declares and even during his two year wartime stint as head coach, he still considered himself an assistant carrying out the master's principles...
...such, he is a vital part of the whole football picture, scouting for the Varsity with the rest of Harlow's assistants and working out the Varsity line in spring practice. But Lamar is still happiest sorting the varied grid talents which confront him each September and melting them down into a Harvard team...
...football teaching department, Lamar believes proper blocking and tackling to be of the essence, and holds that position is the vital factor. "If you can teach a man position, the man can do the rest of it if he wants to play. Knowing how to play a man, knowing angles of pursuit and angles of power are very important...
Timing, or leading for a tackle, is difficult to teach, Lamar maintains. "Like shooting at a moving target," it has to come more or less naturally. "Some men have it, and some...