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...other hand--in the season's opener against UMass--Harvard displayed a frighteningly passive defense, featuring a porous secondary and a sleepy-eyed linebacking corps that allowed itself to be riddled by the passing of one Peil Pennington, en route to an ignoble 28-19 setback...
...other side of the coin, of course, landed in the opening game fiasco with UMass. The Amherst contingent ran roughshod over the Harvard defense for 367 yards total offense, and 210 of those yards came from Pennington's deadly right arm. The Crimson secondary could not blunt the UMass serials, and the Harvard zone was thoroughly ineffective. Pennington was irrepressible against Harvard, hitting the quick slant pattern at will. These thrusts into the belly of the zone accounted for over 150 yards alone. The rest of the Harvard defense had its share of lapses too, and the Crimson gave...
...wind, explaining that it's harder to throw long passes than short passes on a windy day, and Harvard likes to throw long. UMass astutely solved the wind problem by throwing short passes, and if you want to know how much the wind bothered UMass quarterback Peil Pennington, ask Barry Malinowski...
...Pennington ruined an otherwise perfect prediction record for me, but as Nathan Pusey '28 commented upon waking up from the Crimson's 0-0 tie with UMass in 1963. "These early season tilts don't mean diddly-shit...
...afford the loss of Golden who, on the afford the loss of Golden, who, on the basis of a strong pre-season performance, had been heavily counted on to provide much-needed secondary help. The Crimson pass defense in Saturday's game was porous at best, and Pennington's pinpoint possing devastated the belly of the zone with slant patterns and clothes. The Umass serial attack gained 210 yards passing on the afternoon, and over 150 yards of that come on patterns run into the vulnerable midsection of the some...