Word: ornithologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gannon, today, may survey the Yale lineup and bend down to call the sure-fire play for his matches. But as the Crimson rushes out of the huddle they may find the Bulldogs just ain't where they're supposed to be. Actually any Yale shifts are only the Ornithologist's birds coming home to roost--Harlow is perhaps the greatest defensive innovator in American football. His so-called "looping" defense, where his line shifted toward be sideline and his backs in the other direction, took prewar Army intelligence three years to analyze in scouting reports...
That was in 1935. Since then, the ornithologist's charges have lost only one game to Princeton, a close...
Harlow's 1946 squad has won six games of its first seven, and no Crimson team directed by the famed ornithologist has ever taken more than five. The Varsity is also approaching the record of Ed Casey's 1931 outfit, captained by the legendary Barry Wood, which won seven out of eight...
...microphone technique to his list of accomplishments at 10:30 tonight when he goes before an NBC air audience to face the questions of sportscaster Bill Stern. Here to cover the Boston College-Tennessee fracas for NBC, Stern will pry Harlowian slants and gridiron lowdown from the Cambridge ornithologist in the quarter-hour program...
Desperate efforts to save face left Bow Street's bird-men with little more than a handful of feathers late last night as ornithologist-footballer Richard Cresson Harlow exploded claims that the Ibis--which vanished from the Poonish vaults early Thursday--was still in the funnymen's possession...