Word: midfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Camp Kannack stands on the crest of a gentle hillock near the midfield stripe of South Viet Nam, balanced like a football waiting for the kickoff. From the Kannack compound and its adjacent dirt airstrip, some 400 American and montagnard defenders oversee dense jungle, slippery slopes and the crumpled folds of ravines ideally suited for enemy mortar attack. A single ribbon of road leads south toward embattled Route 19, the east-west highway where government convoys are frequent prey for Viet Cong ambushes. Last week the Communists hit Kannack...
...McCarthy went back to the air and found Bob Kenney wide open at midfield. But Guzzi, playing his bset game at corner linebacker, charged up, wrapped his arms around the ball, and pulled it away from Yale's end before Kenney had run five yards...
...climaxed a last-minute Crimson shooting barrage during which the Harvard forwards booted away several near-perfect scoring opportunities. Yale blew its share of set-ups earlier in the game as they out-hustled the Crimson through the first three periods and consistently beat them to the ball at midfield...
Brokenhearted. Stanford was next: the Indians did not reach midfield in the whole first half, did not get a first down until 7 min. into the second, and fell 28-6. But one tearful Irish lineman was still dissatisfied: "I was really brokenhearted when they got that touchdown," he said. Fully recovered from an early-season injury, Navy's brilliant Quarterback Roger Staubach did his best to stop the Irish rampage ?with 19 completions in 36 pass attempts. But Notre Dame's Huarte completed ten of 17 passes, and the score was the measure of the teams: Notre Dame...
Harvard recovered rapidly, however, and clearly dominated the rest of the half. The quick, accurate midfield passes of the Crimson halfbacks and forwards notably those of junior inside Fred Akuffo seemed to baffle the over-eager Brown defenders, and Harvard out-shot the Bruins by better than three...