Word: tailback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After stumbling against solid Yale resistance for the first 20 minutes of play, Princeton tailback Ron Landeck ran for three second-period touchdowns to lead the Tigers to a 31-6 victory. It was Princeton's 17th straight win, its 13th in a row over Ivy opponents, and its fifth consecutive conquest of Yale...
Princeton scored first on a 65-yard march led by the passing and running of single-wing tailback Richard Bracken. Harvard blocked a punt early in that series, but a roughing-the-kicker penalty was marked off. After that play, the Crimson defense simply fell apart...
Harvard had trouble handling certain aspects of the Tigers' single wing offense. Tailback Bracken was so effective on reverses and fake reverses that the entire Harvard line sometimes seemed to be moving in the wrong direction...
...passing of tailback Ron Landeck to Cashdollar had given Princeton a 14-0 first-half lead, but Harvard cut the lead to eight points and was moving toward a second touchdown early in the fourth quarter. Behind the running of Wally Grant and Bobby Leo, the Crimson ground out yardage from its own 39 to the Princeton...
Another Harvard drive fizzled on the Princeton 34, and Landeck methodically directed the Tigers to their second touchdown. The brilliant tailback connected on five straight passes, which moved Princeton to the Harvard 16. After six running plays, Landeck scored from...