Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning of the campaign, Dukakis and Bush were like line drawings as in a coloring book and they have to be colored in," Reese says. "Bush was in pastels, with a reputation for being a wimp and so forth, but in identifying Dukakis as short on patriotism, soft on crime and weak on defense, Bush very vividly colored Michael Dukakis...
Quarterback: Jim Schuman has never met a pass play he didn't like. He'll throw short, he'll throw long, but he won't throw in the towel. Forget B.U.'s 2-6 record. Schuman (who averages more than 50 passes a game) will keep the scoreboard operator working. He needs nine yards passing to move over the 2000-yd. mark this year...
Surprisingly, Crimson defensive coordinator George Clemens is more concerned with the Terriers' short passing game...
...play them under, play some zones, and take the short pass away," Clemens said. "They'll try to spread you out. We'll try to take care of under coverage first and force them to throw the long pass. They may think they can throw the long pass because of the problems we've been having...
...Crimson showed the experience it had gained from previous close losses by hanging tough in the closing minutes of play. Yale's last gasp with three minutes to play, brought about by several poor Harvard passes in its defensive end, fell short when the Crimson finally got control of the ball and forced it out of its end of the field...