Word: wing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used to be fairly easy to tell when Harvard's varsity football team was preparing for Princeton. Coach John Yovicsin would select an elite group of reserves from Henry Lamar's freshman team, teach them very quickly the arts of the mystical single wing system, and run them against his varsity...
That was the single wing, and until this September, when new Tiger coach Jake McCandless scrapped it in favor of the "T" system, it perennially drove Harvard coaches to drink...
...sophomore Thomas lofted a long corner kick in from the left wing. Quaker goalie Dan Biegel let the ball sail past the net and Kydes headed the ball home from the right side...
Sophomore Kydes broke loose in the second period on the right wing but was fouled from behind. On the ensuing free kick. Gomez rifled a line shot from 30 yards out that flew past Biegel into the upper left-hand corner...
...past. Harvard has always busied itself the week before the Princeton game preparing for the single wing and the powerful running attack it featured. This fall, however, the Crimson will find Princeton less predictable, with a balanced offense...