Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...football squirted out from between the quarterback and fullback -- apparently the result of indecision on the option -- and skittered back to the ten-yard line where Dartmouth back Jimmie Solomon fell on it. It was the only thing that could go wrong...
...illegal procedure penalty stopped the clock at :01, one last reprieve remained for a stunned Dartmouth team. Case took things into his hands, sprinting wide to the left with a rollout option...
Dartmouth is known for its crowd-the-line tactics of defense, keying on the run to force the opposition into a passing offense. Harvard, possessing one of the most effective aerial attacks in the East, will no doubt choose that option...
Dartmouth relies offensively on a belly option type offense, with quarterback Kevin Case and halfback Sam Coffey joining Oberg in the fake/pitch-out series. Coffey and Oberg each ran for better than 150 yards in the Big Green's 45-7 destruction of Holy Cross, and Case has shown great improvement since Restic and the Crimson last...
Restic is most concerned with Case's running ability off the option fake, but is aware of his passing ability as well. "He can throw the ball fairly well, and he relies primarily on those short wide-out patterns. They like to isolate their receivers one-on-one with defensive backs in short patterns, something we should be able to contain," Restic said...