Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single wing was not the same machine that it is now. "We just went out there on Saturday and said, 'Here we come--what are you going to do about it?'" The pre-war edition of the Crisier system featured a minimum of spinners and a maximum of straight power...
Putting the single wing into Harvard football has been comparatively easy, at least as far as Nelson's department is concerned. "The system's been evolving since 1940, and a lot of boys out west grew up with it; here we had to teach the backs the feeling of the thing more than the actual execution, which came quickly enough...
Most important game--for the wavering spectator--is the top-of-the-heap contest between Kirkland, the Harvard champ, and Berkeley, Yale's top College. Both squads in this blue-chip game will be using the single wing formation...
...Deacons, who won from Eliot in a playoff Tuesday after the two teams had ended the season in a tie, will rely on their crafty Michigan-style single-wing spinner formation, with its effective trio of plunging backs: Jerry Glynn, Willie Thompson, and Jacques Winter. Rounding out the backfield is quarterback Hollis French, who handles the team's passing...
...other bright spot of the afternoon was Captain Kenny O'Donnell, who ran with the first string defensive backfield and at wing back when the varsity practiced its offense against the dummies...