Word: snap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's biggest threat came in the third quarter when Joe Lahti, a quarterback playing halfback, took a shotgun snap from center and passed 32 yards to quarterback Buchanan at Yale's 24-yd. line. But Yale's defense quickly stiffened...
...Cambridge, but Kubacki, injured the week before in Philadelphia, had to watch from the sidelines. What he saw was as pleasing as a final exam. The Tigers clawed their way to a 24-0 lead, and even an incredible Tim Davenport-inspired comeback which came within a bobbled snap from center of immortality left the final margin...
...glamor boy of the Crimson eleven in the mid-1930s was fullback Vernon Struck, who back then took the snap from center. Struck's sleight-of-hand with the pigskin earned him the sonorous sobriquet of "The Magnificent Faker." "Struck would fake you right out of the stadium," Cavileer recalls. "One day I ran into Dick Bennick, who was a manager back in 1930 and he said: 'I sit with my friends back in the end zone and I don't have any problems seeing the ball but I never could follow the plays when old Struck was around...
Champi takes the snap. He scrambles right. He scrambles left. He tries to lateral. He then spots Gatto, open between two defenders in the left endzone...
Crack, crack, crack! The chutes snap open, blossoming in the sky like popcorn. They are a far cry from the old rounded canopies of World War II. Brightly colored, they are designed to allow the jumpers to maneuver on the way to earth. They float downward for two, maybe 2% minutes. Then they are upon you, the suspended jumpers emitting war whoops because it went well, they have made a good dive, and maybe because they are high on their own adrenaline and they feel so good. "We're all adrenaline junkies," says a jumper...