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Word: snappings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later became president of Radcliffe, the program is both generous and uncompromising: there is no time limit for earning a degree and, for needier students, there is financial help; but the "Adas" (their campus nickname) must attend the same classes as regular four-year students, which means no snap courses and no credits for "life experience," a popular trend in adult education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cultivating Late Bloomers | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...Steve Ernst. Ernst started the year as a wingback, then moved around in Restic's midseason, injury-forced backfield reshuffling. In the Dartmouth game. Ernst shifted to halfback in place of the injured Mark Vignali. Jim Fadule started at wingback to replace Ernst, and Chuck Colombo took the first snap from center because sophomore Brian White developed a blood clot in his arm the Thursday before the game. Starting fullback Robert Santiago didn't play because of a hamstring pull; several players tried unsuccessfully to fill his shoes...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: The comeback kids | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

Steinberg's placekicking wasn't as successful as gusted winds foiled two of his four PAT attempts and a bad snap led to his 32-yard field goal attempt getting blocked...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: The comeback kids | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

...only take one bad snap for Harvard's title hopes to get blocked. This is a team that left itself no margin for error that had to sweep its final four Ivy games and hope for some help. Brown's upset of Dertmouth supplied the help; now it's three down and one to go for the championship. "We've just gotta win." says Captain Joe Azelby. "That's all we can do."CrimsonTimothy W. PlassMARK VICNALI...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: The comeback kids | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

Restic employs standard "I" and "I" formations as well as more bizarre nobody-in-the-backfield configurations. As the bumper stickers say, "Harvard football is in motion," with players shifting all over the place before the snap. The epitome of it all is the quarterback-in-motion play, where the man behind the center stands up and jogs off towards the sideline before cutting upfield to receive a pass from the fullback, who takes the shotgun snap from the center...

Author: By Mike Knobler, | Title: The multiflex meets middle-age | 11/16/1983 | See Source »

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