Word: quarterbacked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eagles and Redskins. Four fine backs, spinning and spiraling from a streamlined T, have sparked the Eagle offensive, which has averaged 28 points a game. The indispensable man is Roy Zimmerman, who runs the show from his ball-handling quarterback spot, also passes and kicks. The sub-stars in the cast are tackle-smashing Halfbacks Ernie Steele and Jack Hinkle, and slippery-hipped Breakaway-Runner Steve Van Buren...
...ferocious block by Fullback Felix ("Doc") Blanchard* helped Quarterback Doug ("Hard Luck") Kenna sweep right end for the opening touchdown. It was Army's first touchdown against Notre Dame in five years, and it stimulated the killer instinct in the Cadets' cheering section. "Get more ... get more," they chanted, and the West Pointers poured it on. Halfback Glenn Davis, with All-America stamped all over him, carried the ball eight times for 83 yards, scored three touchdowns. As the avalanche rolled on, the Cadet rooters changed their chant to: "Hit 'em again ... hit 'em again...
...football professors had been dead wrong, and humanly slow to admit it. Four years ago, coaches labeled the T formation a precarious stratagem suitable only for such star performers as Quarterback Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears and Fullback Norm Standlee of Stanford. Without such power and polish, said the coaches, the T formation wouldn't work...
...variations, the ball-handling quarterback forms the stem of the T, the other three backs the top crossbar. By any name, its razzle-dazzle pattern of spinners, flankers, man-in-motion, dive-tackle plays pack a wallop that makes scores and delights the fans...
Since spring practice, McKeever has sifted and shifted his young huskies from spot to spot. Freshman Johnny Ray bounced from end to center to guard before winding up as first-string center. Towering Joe Gasparella, a 6-ft.-4 freshman who started as a center, has become a quarterback. This week, after six months of juggling, McKeever was still at it, still maneuvering and polishing, as he prepared his powerhouse for Dartmouth's not-so-strong Ivy Leaguers...