Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the Crimson squad will consist of Ralph Perry, Bill Thompson, Jim Schlaeppi, Bob Holmes, Mac Brown, Morris, John Read, Dick Wharton, and either Dyke Benjamin or Larry Lavers...
What made their jobs even more difficult Saturday was that they were both being compared constantly to Ralph Thompson, Tufts' experienced T-formation signal caller. In comparison with these often awkward and undeceptive neophytes, Thompson was the picture of ease...
With the score tied at 6-6, early in the period, Tufts had a fourth down and five to go on the H. 45 yard line. Every football convention calls for a punt in that situation, and Thompson lined up in a punt formation, but instead, he took the snap from center and fired a pass to fullback Normie Wright, free on the flat. He carried to the 25. Five plays later, Wright who was the spark in the Tufts attack, took a pitchout from Thompson on the four-yard line, and scored standing...
That completely unexpected play seemed to take the life out of the Crimson attack. For it could not seem to move the ball in the period at all after that. At the end of the period, after a punt exchange, the Jumbos recovered a fumble on their own 35. Thompson took to the air again and completed another pass to Wright down to the H. 38, and two plays later, one to substitute back Dave Fox on the 18-yard line. Fox took it to the 14, where he was brought down as the period ended...
...Crimson held for a down, and then Thompson threw to Paul Abrahamian in the end zone, but the former Harvard man, juggled it out of the zone, making his catch illegal. On third down, Dave Wells held in check most of the day, cut around his left end on a pitch out play, and fooled two tacklers, going into the end zone for what seemed to be the clinching score. Lou Rigano's kick was good...