Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will find here though, is material potentially on a par with the teams he will face on next fall's "back-breaking" schedule. Best of all, Valpey will find a team which should adapt itself well to the Crisler system he has said he will employ. The single-wing is the basic Crisler formation (he uses/about 7, with a total of 170 or so plays). But Crisler doesn't use the single-wing exclusively for the power it was designed to produce. By lining up in a T, with an unbalanced line, and the quarterback up over center, Michigan freezes...
Harlow used that same setup this fall, except that instead of shifting into the single-wing, he would shift into an L formation if he elected not to run from the T. He never used a spinner (one of the Crisler essentials) because he built his attack around the straight-ahead over power of Vinnie Moravec. When Moravec got hurt, it was too late to scrap the system. Here is the biggest single problem facing Valpey: in order to employ the razzic-dazzle, split-second timing offensive he knows so well, he must find a fullback who can spin...
...driving, hippe type. He spins and he starts most of the plays. The quarterback is the blocking back. Jack Weisenberger played fullback for the Wolverines last fall. He weighs about 175. He generally got the ball on a direct pass from center, after the switch from T to single-wing, and then the fun began, with as many as five men eventually handling the ball as in the now-famous Rose Bowl end-around...
Harvard will start its usual first team to oppose this juggernaut. Wally Sears, generally the squad's most frequent blinker of the red light, will start at left wing, alongside center Dave Key and right wingman Shaw McKean...
Pudgy, bald Mario Scelba, Christian Democrat Minister of the Interior, had already thought about it a good deal. Italians would elect a Parliament on April 18. The last thing Scelba wanted was swaggering, uniformed, intimidating bands of Communists and left-wing Socialists marching the streets of Italy. Scelba wanted a law forbidding all private armed organizations. But his cabinet colleagues needed convincing. They feared a row. With a shrewd twinkle in his black eyes, Mario Scelba let scrappy Il Tempo take up the cudgels...