Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within forty-seven seconds another four Yardlings finished to complete the sweep of both opponents. All seven ran faster than this year's seniors did in the freshman Big Three...
...losses to B. U. and Cornell should have told Yovicsin that the offense may not have the consistency to run the sweep with its pristine results, and the loss to Dartmouth has confirmed it. Harvard's attack is much too predictable, and its predictability lessens its success...
Dartmouth stopped the sweep. It stopped the counter and returned the option pass for a touchdown. It bottled up Varney. It was not the first team to do it. It might not be the last...
Last year, Harvard's bread-and-butter play was the power sweep series. The Crimson used it almost incessantly, and ran the halfback option, the pitchout and the bootleg from it as well. BU stopped the sweep this year. Cornell stopped it. If Dartmouth stops it, and if Harvard refuses to try the deep pass or the swing pass to end Pete Varney, it will not get four touchdowns...
Burns has consistently opposed big government generally; he is strongly for decentralization, through such measures as federal-state revenue sharing. He is so devoted to a free-market economy, that he has written of it with unaccustomed fervor: "By and large, it is competition-not monopoly-that has vast sweep and power in our everyday life." This viewpoint leads him to consider wage-price "guidelines" to be almost as evil as statutory controls. "Free competitive markets would virtually cease to exist in an economy that observed the guidelines," he once wrote...