Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game birds are a tricky breed. As old Hunter Hemingway says, they all fly different ways. A man who can plug a teal zigzagging upward out of marsh grass may have a tough time sighting in on a flight of mallard drumming toward him. Learning to lead a speedy pintail is another trick entirely from following a wood duck through trees. For all the instruction a hunter may have had, all the trapshooting he may have done, lining up a wing shot, says one expert, "is something like learning how to balance peas on the edge of your knife...
Many things stand out after today's game--the fine two-way play of both Bob Sowles and Jerry Marsh, the dependable rushing of Matt Botsford--but among the factors least likely to get much publicity is the outstanding job of scouting on this Cornell team...
...strong points (named Len Oniskey) and weaknesses. The scouting reports and Marsh's exceptionally fine play-calling allowed the Crimson to exploit the weaknesses to the fullest. One can only wonder why the Big Red, with a very slick passer in Bill De Graaf, and with no openings through the middle, did not pass more...
...Graaf took over then and fired both a succession of incomplete passes and the imagination of every wildly cheering Harvard fan. The Crimson took over the ball and ran out the clock. With fourth down and one to go on his own 45, Marsh elected to run and Jimmy Joslin picked up the first down. It was the right way to run off the clock, just as the 77' yard drive was the right...
Meanwhile, the first varsity backfield ran through a 40-minutes signal drill with Tony Gianelly again in as fullback and Jerry Marsh at quarterback...