Word: lineing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Herman sends him deep from a right flanker position, shallow from his normal left half position, and just over the line of scrimmage from a motion right. The first of these plays looks something like Harvard's "transcontinental" play that scored against Brown last week-quarterback Stu Tisdale fades back and to the right, and then throws deep and across the field diagonally to Jackson. You will see this one most often when Yale is near the right sideline...
Spears is Line-Bucker...
...defensive setups. The latter, an operative whose girth is comparable to Hickman's and whose football sagacity is legendary, scouted Army nine times a year for three years while in the employ of the Notre Dame Athletic Association. If he found flaws in the 1944, 1945, and 1946 Army lines he must have noticed by now the carefree fashion in which Princeton and Brown went through the center of Harvard's line. This means that Yale will send fullback Bob Spears into the line early in the game to look for a hole...
...passer," rather than a Furse stand-up-and-throw passers--he generally fades or jumps before throwing. His throws, although not the flat passes that Yale used last year, are accurate and more often than not cover the distance between the scrimmage line and Jackson...
...Mediocre Line...