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When it came to tackling, the same attitudes prevailed. The Big Red line tackled viciously. Harvard linemen, however almost fell over backwards to hug the Cornell ball-carriers. But the latter seemed to avoid the fraternal show of Ivy League affection...
...when Lamar actually pares down his "A" squad into a starting eleven, he will find plenty of strong starters. Already such men as linemen Bill Holbrook, Bill Frothingham, Butch Gordon; ends Cy Bunce and Alex Sergienko; and backs Tom Osman, Bill Healy, and Rusty Burke seem good bets for the team. There are others...
...never ending quest for perfection, Valpey ran his "A" and "B" teams through their entire repertoire of plays at the rate of slightly more than four plays a minute. Lest the men got out of practice, they carried out their blocking assignments against dummies bolstered by large linemen. Nobody seemed out of practice; on every play at least one dummy and lineman would go crashing down from a vicious block...
When a Harvard ballcarrier cut around end, he looked for his best path; when linemen reached the secondary, they looked for the key blocks and executed them with gusto and guts; when a Columbia runner got into our backfield he was met aggressively...
Speaking of Yale, Harlow said, "I know everything about Herman Hickman and he's a good coach." McCoy added, "Hickman may look easy going, but remember he played at Tennessee where they like them rough, tough, and nasty." As for the new football rules making interior linemen eligible as pass receivers Harlow whistled and said, "You know, this changes the whole game of football. This makes a man to man defense absolutely impossible...