Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall Tex Furse was the beginning of those. Running out of T with endless variations, Quarterback Furse threw where the opponents were not but his receiver precisely was. Time after time one end would line up as a wide right flanker, the back in motion would dart out to the left, and the other end would get the ball hard in the middle of his stomach ten yards in front of the center. After that began to bore, Furse lateraled to one of the flankers for a little variety...
Meanwhile the Freshman "B" squad started the season yesterday by downing a Roxbury Latin School eleven 12 to 0. An off tackle plunge by Andrews in the second period and a quarterback sneak by Tomasello scored the two Crimson tallies...
After this one uprising it was Kirkland's game all the way. A quarterback sneak by French late in the first half, a pass in the third period from halfback Tom Lamb to left end Bob Snow, and another reverse around left end by Rogers produced the other three tallies. A break-through by Deacon guard Read brought a two-point safety, and the final point came on a run around end for the point after the third touchdown...
...Bunny offense was right half Bob Zimmerman, who passed for both tallies, once to sub quarterback Dick Gladstone and again in the third stanza to end Pete Duble. Tom Clark converted sure-footedly after both scores...
Like the Varsity, the Jayvee backs will run an adapted winged "T" with plays necessarily similiar to the Harlow squad. For the key quarterback position Boston has a couple of old warhorses in Bucky "The Toe" Harrison and Frank Miklos. Miklos was injured early in practice this fall but is now approaching the form which won him a Varsity berth in 1946. Bucky flits bark and forth from the Varsity and Jayvee squads because of his utility as a placekicker, passer and ballhandler...