Word: quarterback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contest was a defensive struggle played on a muddy field that limited the offenses of both teams. Harvard's veer offense, dependent on quick cuts by runners, was hurt by the field conditions. Quarterback Jim Stoeckel countered with his finest performance of the season, although many of his accurate throws were dropped by the Crimson receivers...
Yale's intramural tackle football teams won only one game against the Harvard Houses yesterday, but that was the championship match, as Eliot House dropped a 12-7 heartbreaker on a late 22-yard run by the Jonathan Edwards-Branford quarterback...
Other award winners included: middle guard George Jackson (William Paine LaCroix Trophy for enthusiasm, sportsmanship, loyalty and team spirit), linebacker Matt Sabetti (Robert F. Kennedy Award for desire, determination and willingness to work), and quarterback George Hodakowski and center Dave Scheper (Henry N. Lamar Award for dedication and concern for one's teammates...
...Louis Cardinals Head Coach Don Coryell in 1978, Fouts took off like one of his own passes. Coryell installed a sophisticated passing offense, a "tree" system that sends swarms of receivers downfield to move across predetermined "branches." The system has no hierarchy of primary and secondary receivers; rather, the quarterback is expected to study defensive reaction, sweep the "tree" with his eyes in a clockwise motion and determine which pass catcher is open...
When uneven football games get out of hand, sacking the quarterback becomes an exercise that any number can play. That's the way it has been for Jimmy Carter since early in this political season. If Brezhnev, Castro, Schmidt, Begin and Lopez Portillo could do it, who's to stop William Safire...