Word: pitch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were in the wrong defense in the beginning," sophomore safety Mike Jacobs, who came in for McLeod, said after the game. "We had to get to the quarterback," head coach Joe Restic said, explaining the adjustments Harvard made to handle the quarterback-halfback pitch...
Linebacker Craig Beling was double-teamed so Restic brought the safety up to cover the pitch...
Many individuals merit credit, including Beling, the defensive signal caller, but perhaps the biggest surprise was Jacobs. He was the safety who was called upon to shut down the pitch and time and time again he dropped Penn's Denis Grosvenor and Ron Gray for losses on the right side...
...soccer "pitch" he is in his element, having played the sport since grade school. By the time he was 15, Smith was playing up to 100 games a season and he made the last 22 of the British junior national team in his senior year. But, even there, Smith had to adapt. "It's certainly the first time, at the school level, that I've been on a losing team," he says. "In a few games it's hurt my game. Sometimes it seems it's been a struggle...
Comes a Time is a choice Young album; also, like all his records, it is inconsistent. A relaxed and cozy mood prevails, similar to the previous Harvest but pitched lower than the disconcerting brilliance of On the Beach and Tonight's the Night. Whether at his peak or just marking time, Young is an incessant worker; he has about 200 songs recorded but unreleased. The tunes all share a rough, unfinished quality that is often disarming, sometimes just rushed. Young works best at the full pitch of his feelings, does not seem to wait around for second thoughts. Comes...