Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Hopkins, still gaunt from long illness, was finally back on his old six-day work week at the White House. Each day last week his familiar slouched figure could be seen entering the East Wing at 9 a.m. Shut off, even from telephone calls and intimate friends, he worked until 7 p.m., and sometimes far into the evening. His work baskets were usually filled with details of his current specialty: relations between the U.S., Russia and Britain. (He did much of the skull-work for Franklin Roosevelt's meeting with Churchill at Quebec...
Traditional basic formation for Harvard elevens is a Harlow mixture that has been called everything from a modified T to a modified single wing, or even a double wing. This year a fairly deep punt formation, a straight T, and a regular single wing are figuring prominently in Lamon's plans also...
Keystone of the "Harlow wing" or whatever else it might be called, is an unbalanced line, with only a guard and an end playing to the left of the center. The blocking back stands exactly behind the inside tackle, while the other three line up in a row about three yards behind the line. the fullback and tallback are behind the right and left guards, respectively, with the wingback directly to the rear of the right...
...course this formation can be used equally well on the left. It's main advantage over a straight single wing lies in the position of the wingback, who is moved back even with the other runners, instead of being just a step behind the line of scrimmage. This change is essential to the Harlow system, for it saves fleet wingbacks the backward steps they would have to take in the other formation...
...this year, but not necessarily abandoned by Lamar, is the famous "double shift." Constructed so as to pull opposing linemen offside, although no one would every admit that, it worked to the turn of just 17 offside penalties in the 1942 Penn game. The formation starts with a single wing to the right, but everyone starts moving of a sudden, with the fullback spinning to confuse matters, and pretty soon it is a left formation--with at least three of the opponents offside by them...