Word: shepards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson junior varsity eleven has built itself an impressive record so far this season. But Coach Norm Shepard's squad comes up against its first really tough opponent--the Dartmouth jayvees--at 2 p.m. today on the J. V. Field...
...Indians last year trampled the Crimson, 33 to 0; the year before that it was 38 to 0. But in 1951, Norm Shepard's team was able to win only one game--and that one a squeaker, 6 to 0 against an offensively weak Yardling team...
Meanwhile the defense worked out against Dartmouth plays which were run off by Norm Shepard's junior varsity. Ron Messer and Bob Hardy at linebackers, French and Bob Cowles at halfbacks, and Dick Duback alternating with Sam Fyock at safety made up the varsity defense. Sophomore Tom Campbell, who has been working with the jayvess most of the season, alternated with Cowles at halfback...
...between penalties, the jayvees showed a fair running attack, and a spotty inconsistent passing game. But the Crimson was offside so often that by the end of the third period a frustrated Norman Shepard was benching any player who jumped the count...
Even with the penalties, and empassioned referees who implored the Harvard linement to "take it easy," Dean Academy showed nothing. Just how it got on the schedule is somewhat of a mystery. An unfortunate one, too, for Shepard's team would have benefitted more from an intra-squad scrimmage. As it was, the team completely slacked, made high-schoolish mistakes, and won easily...