Word: trickyness
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VINCE MORAVEC is the Crimson's line puncher. Throwing all of his 200 pounds into it every time he lugs the ball he punctures holes by his own power when none are visible. On several occasions this fall, he has also shows some tricky open field running.
Another approach is the "coronagraph," developed by Dr. Bernard Lyot of France in 1930. It is a telescope with an internal disc hiding the face of the sun, and specially designed to eliminate glare. Though tricky, it works even better than the spectroheliograph, showing the corona, the faintly glowing halo...
Against the T, Princeton's progressive Coach Charlie Caldwell does indeed work such tricky devices as the undershifted six, the overshifted five, the looping line.* But so long as Penn used its single wing offense, Caldwell confined himself to three basic defense formations.
Boring, but Necessary. In nearly all big college football camps, a deceptive defense had now become almost as important as a tricky offense. Said Notre Dame's Frank Leahy: "Defense has always bored me ... it's not stimulating. But I'm stressing it this season." In six...
As one of the useful tricks of their tricky trade, Broadway columnists slip the names of saloonkeepers and cafe owners into their paragraphs. Last week in Boston, newsmen noticed that the name of Saloonkeeper Toots Shor had been mentioned by five syndicated columnists on one day. They hastily formed the...