Word: scatback
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...Tribe (4-0), ranked fifth last week in Division I-AA, was led by shifty scatback Michael Clemons and free-slinging quarterback Ken Lambiotte. The bulky William & Mary defense held the Crimson (1-2 overall, 1-0 Ivy) in check, extending Harvard's scoreless streak to nine periods...
Sure, some good things happened Saturday, like Jim Callinan's 190 yards on 34 carries for the second-best rushing day in Harvard history, or Tiger Bob Holly's 24 completions for 278 yards and two touch-downs or Princeton scatback Larry Van Pelt's 99 yards on the ground at the Stadium before...
...hardly a forgotten man. "He's superquick and super-competitive," notes a scout. Griffin is also durable. He has never missed a college game because of injury, though he carries the ball an average of 20 times per game. For a team in the market for a scatback like Terry Metcalf of the St. Louis Cardinals, the answer is Joe Washington, University of Oklahoma...
...pros. At that point, the most important man on every coach's staff will be his chief scout. How really valuable is that scrambling, rollout quarterback who has been dazzling college fans all fall and has the press clippings to prove it? Can that light little scatback or that skinny, glue-fingered end stand up against the agile brutes of the big leagues? Who are the sleepers, the unsung stars from little-known schools who will grab the headlines when they play for pay? The scouts' answers add up to something more than vital information for their teams...
This was his second personal victory over the Yale immortal of the same era--pint-sized scatback Albie Booth. Much like the Kennedy-Johnson struggles of the present day, the annual Harvard-Yale football clashes were billed as head-to-head individual confrontations rather than as the quarrels between the two divergent philosophical approaches they so obviously were. Booth and Wood generally went both ways--offense and defense. They did the place-kicking for their respective teams and dominated the ground-gaining operations...