Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gamble pays off. Quarterback John Rogan, back in the pocket, spots split end Curt Grieve at the end of a 20-yd, out pattern, but practically smothered by Harvard defenders Matt Foley and Rocky Delgadillo...
This year the familiar pattern has been unwillingly but faithfully followed. The Harvard and Yale teams have fallen far short of preseason hopes or expectations. But, as in the past, both conscious strategy and the insidious but unconscious aura of the game inexorably combine to save the special play, the hardest tackle, the all-out effort, for today. The explosion that inevitably follows produces exciting football, unexcelled football. It is touched off when two ordinary teams suddenly find their particular niche in the unpredictable common denominator that is football and become part of a legend...
Crooks's report, which he wrote with Nancy Randolph, special assistant to the president, determined that the Sociology Department's hiring record does not display a pattern of sex discrimination...
...Multiflex limits that to begin with. "We really don't have any long passes in our offense," he says. "I mean, I was a wide receiver last year and I didn't catch any." And a teammate adds, "It's really strange, but I don't think the fly pattern is even in our playbook. At least, it's never called...
Shoulder to shoulder they stood, at play as well as at work. This was an era before specialization, the era of the athletic swingman. Athletes who had played three different sports in three seasons in high school just continued the pattern in college. Bob's backfield mate on the freshman football team--John Simourian--was his backcourt mate on the basketball team, and his fellow infielder in the spring...