Word: rovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Promptly at 5 a.m. the soldiers moved off. The first column, on foot, made its way up a little-used Land Rover track through the swamps, waded across the Kagera River, and overwhelmed a company-sized Ugandan garrison near the village of Kyebe. Then, climbing aboard the garrison's trucks and Jeeps, it cut northwest to the town of Sanje. The second column, with a few vehicles of its own, easily swept through the small frontier post of Mutukula, and joined forces with the first at Sanje. Together, they raced northward to Masaka, 80 miles from the capital...
...team MVP, and Captain Dave Ignacio no longer occupies the rover back position, but his replacement, hard-hitting veteran Steve Golden, should make the most of a rover back's many opportunities to flatten opposing runners and receivers (Ignacio led the team in tackies last year with 60, 19 more than his nearest competitor...
...ground. The defensive line was equally unmerciful to the Bruins, squashing the Brown running game and breaking through to dump Brown quarterbacks six times Harvard's All-Ivy defensive end. Junior Mitch Berger, usually led the charge, making seven lackles for the game. Steve Golden, in his new rover back position, was equally ferocious. Flattening Brown runners eight times...
...best parts of Hone's espionage novel have nothing to do with espionage. His hero, far from being the traditional gun-and-karate spy, is a mournful reincarnation of the wandering Irishman, someone whose way of escaping from Egypt is to hitch a ride on a Land Rover with an Anglican clergyman who is setting off with beagle-like optimism to expand the parish in the Saharan sands around Tobruk...
...defense is more questionable than the offense. Harvard will sorely miss its outstanding interior linemen Spencer Dreischarf and Mark Steiner; and the rover back, Captain Dave Ignacio, who led the team in both tackles and interceptions, is irreplaceable. Defensive back Steve Golden, probably the hardest hitting tackler on the team, will move to Ignacio's spot, but he is too slow to really effectively handle the pass defense responsibilities of the rover back. As a whole, the defensive secondary desperately needs some speed, and if it doesn't get it, pass coverage may again prove to be Harvard's most...