Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PLAY, AMERICAN STYLE, refers less and less to a crack of a bat or even a hearty game of shuffleboard. If play provokes our spiritual development and teaches us better table manners, then we now learn the morality of snap decisions and reflexes. Painlessly, we can acquire the ethics of programmed logic and binary code. No more categorical imperatives, just capricious decisiveness and contingency plans...
...Notre Dame quarterback who was winning as a pro (Joe Montana)? Or a play in which the quarterback dashes off the field at the last instant and leaves the wide receiver to take the snap from center? Montana and Freddie Solomon pulled that one. Solomon rolled out for seven yards, and the 49ers rolled on to a 17-14 victory over the Atlanta Falcons, the seventh straight 49ers victory, pushing their division lead to three games with only a third of the season left...
With a note of desperation in the are, Callinan struggled for four yards, but Allard threw low to Cuccia. On a third and four, Cuccia faked the quarterback-in-motion, took the snap from center and tried to sneak for the first down. His attempt failed, and Villanueva punted again, this time a bounder that settled on the Yale...
Yale fans who have witnessed conventional offense for most of the season will be taken aback by Harvard's quarterback-in-motion play the formation the Crimson uses most frequently to pass. Backup quarterback Donny Allard--agile and strong-armed--takes the snap, former split end Cuccia flares wide. Callinan looks for a screen pass, and referees try to discern if the play is legal. Quite often, the zebras have decided otherwise. Harvard must avoid its perennial propensity for penalties if it is to stay in The Game against the powerful Elis...
Harvard has the ball again, in a third-and-long situation. Oh-oh, there goes Cuccia in motion again and the snap back to Allard. And another incomplete pass. And another penalty. The Man intently eyes the screen. Why, Harvard's going to run the play twice in a row. Not much of a surprise. The Man muses...