Word: scatback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...very bad; he was always at his best when he had a bet riding on the game. Nagurski was a runaway truck who was lucky to be bigger (at 230 lbs.) than most of the people he had to run over in the 1930s. Grange was a 165-lb. scatback, who never ran over anybody at all. Like Brown, he was accused of being a shirker at blocking: "All Grange can do is run," was the classic comment-to which Bob Zuppke, his coach at Illinois, retorted: "All Galli-Curci can do is sing." Van Buren, "the Flying Dutchman...
...today in New Harven, the Yardling will battle the undefeated Yalies in what promises to be the offensive duel of the year. Actually, it could boil down to a battle of stars; Crimson scatback and captain Vic Gatto against Bullpup passing wonder Brian Dowling, the finest freshman quarterback at Yale since Tom Singleton...
...offense, Dartmouth is set. Besides Spangenberg and Kelley, they can use big fullback Tom Parkinson, who has a rushing average of better than four yards per carry. Jack McLean, a 160-pound scatback, runs well and is a first-class pass receiver. The line is big and fast, and the ends, Charles Greer and captain Scott Greelman, are the equals of any in the Ivy League. Bob Komives, McKinnon's replacement at center, is the lightest man in the line at 190. Curran and Keible are 220-pounders, as are the more inexperienced tackles, Jan Dephouse and Dale Runge...
...eight men getting in on the tackle. He'll wiggle away for sure if you don't," says Wyoming Coach Lloyd Eaton. A scrawny 168-pounder who could pass for the water boy, Fortie does not bulldoze through the line; nor can he boast a scatback's breakaway speed. But he has a knack for darting through holes, shifting direction and bouncing off tacklers. He also knows how to make the most of the run-or-pass option play in Coach Mitchell's old-fashioned single wing. "Fortie wouldn't be so hard to stop...