Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only in the past two years has the use of the back in motion reached its ultimate refinement in the T formation. First crudely evolved from the Chicago Bear approximation of the T, the motion-left-and-right was quickly-adapted by Charlie Caldwell of Princeton to the single wing. "With a man in motion, a play can always explode," is the opinion of one of the device's fathers, Coach Harlow. The resulting strain on the ingenuity of the defensive secondary lines is tremendous, and they must always overcome the tendency to commit themselves before the play unravels...
When she came in, she was kidding about having just turned down her seventh bid for the weekend. I nearly cried. Now Sally is wise to the idiosyncrasies of men-or so she says, being a high, and mighty pretty senior, and she took me under her wing...
...Yale. And I'm so sad that this is the last football game. They are such a wonderful excuse for all the wonderful parties. I really hope Harvard wing-if only I didn't have to freeze watching the game...
Brown will use a modified variation of the T formation that goes by a number of titles, namely the Engle T, the swing T and the wing T. The system employs the right halfback in a wingback position instead of the conventional position in the T formation. Coach Engle believes that this man can be sued to greater advantage in this position that in the regular spot...
Harlow had spread his tackles by pre-game command, for fear of the Princeton close-lateral that puzzled Pennsylvania. Faced with that lineup, Caldwell simply sent his men through the center. Passing was little better than mediocre in the damp atmosphere except for Princeton's second tally, on which wing George Sella ran straight past defender Chuck Roche, took Dick Weat's 55-yard pass on the 12 and went on across