Word: tailback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atop the Heisman Trophy conveys the very essence of the purposeful, straight-ahead backfield powerhouse. As a rule, however, the award that designates the country's best college football player goes to a man of flashier stripe-the fancy-Dan quarterback, the breakaway halfback. Not this year. In Tailback Steve Owens of Oklahoma, the Heisman electors tapped a man little given to subtlety afield. "Oh, he can fake people," says one of his coaches, "but more often he just splatters...
...installed a basic "T" formation with MacBean as quarterback. It took them almost a month to adjust to it sufficiently. and in the process, they lost to both Rutgers and Colgate, and had to rally to defend a Cornell squad that at the time had little more than tailback Ed Marinaro...
During pre-season practice this year, MacBean, a senior who played tailback in the old single-wing, beat out letterman Arnie Holtberg and sophomore Rod Plummer for the job, and soon established himself as one of the Ivy League's sharpest signal-callers...
MacBean was a tailback in last year's traditional Princeton single-wing offense, and his performance so far this season has been largely responsible for the Tiger's undefeated record against Ivy competition...
...Crimson defense clearly needs a healthy Gary Farneti. Cornell knew that he would miss the game at Ithaca two weeks ago, and it patterned its offensive game plan to take advantage of the injury. Tailback Ed Marinaro aimed at the right side of the Harvard defensive line throughout the game, running directly at the spot where Farneti would have been. The results were exactly what Cornell had hoped...