Word: players
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haughey is the most amazing player on the squad. For the last two seasons, he was an obscure T-formation quarter-back on a single-wing team, his only job to throw a desperation pass or two every game. But this year, Jordan has utilized Haughey's 6-3 stature and his sure hands to an extent not thought possible in September...
...only at the end position that this Quaker team employs seniors, and here one finds two of the nine on the squad. At right end is co-captain Charley Gill. A strong defensive player, he had six tackles against Army last year. The left end is Dick Schafer, who was used mostly as a reserve last season...
...truly wonderful article. A technical correction, however: ". . . leaving the quarterback free to block ahead of runner or tear downfield for a pass . . ." The official N.C.A.A. football rules, Rule 7, Sec. 3, Article 3b, on Eligibility to Catch a Pass, says: "Each player [is eligible] who is in an end position on the line of scrimmage and each player who is legally in his backfield and who is not in a position to receive a hand-to-hand snap from the center...
...works well when it is intended to prevent block-voting, by national-origin or religious groups, or even by large fraternity groups. No such groups exist here, and the plan effectively solves a non-existent problem. The main effect it can have is to elect the big-name football player to the class committee if he is put down as a ninth choice and works...
Pietro Germi, who directed Mlle. Gobette, shuffles his characters around the screen with the dexterity of a skilled poker player, bluffing for the fun of it, but keeping all the high cards. His intrigues are helped by the apt dialogue which is, surprisingly, translated into fairly literate subtitles. Mr. Germi has succeeded where most others have succeeded. A French farce is a French farce...