Word: pitchouts
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...Nothing to It." Then it was time for the tricks-the beautiful feints and cuts that only halfbacks are supposed to perform. With Cleveland on the Giant 32, Quarterback Frank Ryan called, "Option seven left." The snap, the pitchout, and Jimmy Brown was off, barreling through the left side of the Giants' line. Three Giants had him trapped at the 22. They rushed in. But Jimmy was gone. In one of those incredible flashes of grace that light up professional football, the huge man had pirouetted nearly 180° and was sprinting across the field to his right, looking...
...first contribution was a spectacular sideline catch of a 15-yard Bassett pass. A minute later he took a pitchout from Armstrong on a double reverse pattern, to twist and spin his way 20 yards to the Yale five. As thunderous roars from the Harvard stands filled the stadium, Taylor finished the job with a five-yard sweep around end. John Hartranft kicked the extra point...
Then everything went wrong. Passes were intercepted, a snap from center missed its mark and rolled playfully to the endzone where Lehigh recovered it, and a Lehigh tackle took a pitchout from a Harvard quarterback and went all the way to score...
Indirectly, he was referring to Harvard's two fatal mistakes--the intercepted pitchout and a high pass from center on a fourth-down punt play in the second quarter--which set up Columbia's second and fourth touchdowns. Yovicsin was impatient and visibly irked over these plays; he couldn't pass them off as "that's the breaks," for they were identical to the two blatant errors in the Lehigh game which also led to touchdowns...
Late in the fourth quarter, with third and three, Bassett tried an option off right tackle in which came the fatal pitchout intercepted by Warren to give the Lions the ball on the Harvard 13. Haggerty ran the ball over from the two yard line to conclude the subsequent drive which sealed the final score...