Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Business School field was extremely slippery and both teams found footing difficult throughout the game. In the opening minutes the Owls' short passing game controlled the ball while their four fullbacks and loose turf stymied the Crimson attack...
Kydes kept the Harvard attack moving. While almost everyone was having trouble gaining steady footing in the wet grass the short forward could not be stopped...
Brown's buffalo-like fullbacks dept booming the ball out of their zone. The Crimson could not establish its short pass game, and had to resort to the Bruins long pass technique...
...Owls also have a tendency to move all their men back into their zone should they take a one or two goal lead. Consequently long passes have little chance of making it in Harvard will have to re-establish its short pass game if it hopes to score against this defense...
...politician, he went on to explain, the issue was dangerous. If they voted to end the war, they would be popular for a while. But within a short time the reaction to losing the war would undermine their initial victory, and probably destroy them...