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Word: wing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handicaps Harvard must overcome. The practice clock is running out, and the Varsity is still more or less in fundamentals. "We're never going to get fancy until we have precision," warns Valpey. Pitchouts and end-arounds will presumably have to wait until the single-wing fundamentals are polished to gem-like brilliancy...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Crimson is Still on Fundamentals As Columbia Opener Approaches | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...result, only a few token T-formation plays have been grafted into the single-wing trunk. Jim Kenary; last year's passing whiz, who hasn't thrown from the T yet, was shifted from quarter-back to tallback earlier this week...

Author: By Steve Cady, | Title: Crimson is Still on Fundamentals As Columbia Opener Approaches | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...like any other production: the curtain doesn't go up before a lot of preliminary groundwork. The above action sequence, taken by CRIMSON photographers Pete Mazur and Jack Levy during last spring's practice, shows Art Valpey's squad learning the ABC's the newly-installed Michigan single wing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laying the Groundwork . . . | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

Wide-open football has been a relative stranger to the Harvard grid scene. But once the fundamentals of the single-wing are learned, and precision has been acquired, the type of football magic which made Michigan a great drawing card can be expected in the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laying the Groundwork . . . | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

This means that besides the single-wing, T-plays will be used by the team in which Kenary or Henry will be passing threats under the center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laying the Groundwork . . . | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

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