Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Restic told Buckley to cut his nails the sophomore refused and rather than cut the talented signal caller, the football genius instead decided to use Brain in a continual shotgun position and plant a small land mine between him and the center. the "multi-death" offense, as it is known, should be very useful in preventing quarterback sacks this year...
While the final result was not encouraging, Harvard may have finally solved its two-week-old quarterback problem. After Larry Brown and Burke St. John had combined to give the Crimson only one score in the first half, coach Joe Restic went to a shotgun formation with Brian Buckley doing the throwing...
Buckley finally pumped some wind into the Crimson sails and drove the team downfield with a potent mix of passes and planned quarterback sweeps out of the shotgun. Harvard moved to a first down inside the Colgate ten, but suddenly the offense broke down again. Two stacked-up runs, two incomplete passes and two Harvard penalties later, the Crimson had turned the ball over on downs...
...original intentions, but Restic provide the following post-mortem. "I thought we would run a little more effectively to the outside," he said. "The thing that exasperated me was that they threw on us long. What will give people a problem from now on is when we alternate the shotgun with our regular offense once Buckley gets adjusted so they won't be able to put in extra defensive backs...
Johnson's activism has made for a turbulent personal life. In Montgomery, Johnson and his family were unwelcome at their neighborhood Baptist church and subjected to threatening letters and telephone calls. Two years ago, Johnson's son Johnny, 27, killed himself with a shotgun. Some friends thought the adopted Johnny's longstanding emotional problems could be traced to harassment by his Montgomery schoolmates...