Word: mancini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...News. "They say morale's bad, wondering what kind of changes are coming here," says Salant. "They ought to be worried." But Salant still refuses to jazz up the news. Just before he arrived at NBC the network made an admirably Salantesque gesture: it abolished the bouncy Henry Mancini theme that introduced Chancellor-Brinkley, substituting a newsy sounding melange of electronic music. The new theme is properly unobtrusive, though not nearly so classy as that grand old snippet of Beethoven's Ninth used in the 1960s. Earlier this month he warned his colleagues...
...rushing. For most of the game, though, the accolades belonged to the Crimson defense. Blitzing linebackers Bob Woolway and Matt Sabetti bivouacked in the Colgate backfield much of the game. Meanwhile, Woolway combined with defensive ends Marco Coric and Dave Otto to sack the Colgate QB tandem of Alex Mancini and John Marzo five times...
...Crimson continued to repeatedly blitz in the fourth quarter but less effectively as Mancini and Marzo were able to throw short passes beneath the secondary and whittle away at Harvard's contain defense...
With three minutes left in the game, Colgate made it 24-14 when fullback Angie Colosimo capped a 93-yard drive in 14 plays with a two-yard TD plunge. With four seconds left to play Colosimo caught a 15-yard touchdown pass from Mancini and then ran over for a two-point conversion to close out the scoring...
...expect Harvard to play the same quick-hitting, gung-ho type defense that bottled up UMass last week. Colgate tends to camouflage its running plays with a rollout pass option attack directed by quarterback Alex Mancini, who is from Fonda, N.Y. "We need discipline on defense," Restic says, "we have to read and then not commit quickly and then find the football...