Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Notable, Unnoted Play of the Week: This week's award goes to Coach Joe Restic, who directed Captain Duksky to defer his option if he won the coin toss before the game...
Quarterback keeper off right tackle for five yards, quarterback option past left guard for 10 yards. Snap. Bang...
That's Wishbone football. Run right, run left, run straight up the midddle. Pitch right, option left, fake up the middle. Throw in an occasional pass play to keep the defense honest, but mainly concentrate on hiding the pigskin...
...were confused at first how to attack their option," said adjuster Mike von Rueden (six tackles), who had never defensed the Wishbone before the NU game. "We had practiced a certain way and it wasn't working, so we had to switch in the middle of the game...
...treaty, however, that has become the touchstone of whether the U.S. and Soviet Union can summon the political will to begin reversing the arms race. Since 1981, when Reagan first proposed what eventually became known as the zero-zero option (meaning simply dismantling all intermediate-range missiles), there has been a long series of negotiations, interrupted for 16 months by a Soviet walkout that began in 1983. When Shevardnadze's team $ arrived in Washington, the toughest remaining question was what to do about 72 Pershing IA shorter-range missiles, owned by West Germany and equipped with U.S. warheads...