Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line of Watson, between captain John Cochrane and sophomore Phil Evans, was busy forcing the issue in the Dartmouth zone when Gaudet kicked out Watson's wrister from between the face-off circles...
Junior center Ross Brownridge tallied first for Dartmouth a scant 1:08 into the game. Brownridge, a second-team all-Ivy performer last season, stole the puck in the Dartmouth zone and, working a give-and-go with wing Rick Ryerson, went down the left wing boards and drove a slap shot by Lau from just inside the blue line...
...just dropped behind the Pocono Mountains, its afterglow silhouetting plain wooden bleachers rapidly filling with fans. The Palmerton, Pa., high school band struts along the end zone, then turns smartly down the visiting team's sideline toward a roped-off section behind their players' bench. On the near side of the field, the band for Pleasant Valley High is already in place, alternating Sousa with the theme from Rocky, while cheerleaders flash blue and white pompoms. Five candidates for Pleasant Valley Homecoming Queen wait with feigned casualness in a special section, shyly grinning escorts at their sides. Just...
...Coach Gary Bruch: "We're out there five days a week trying to teach high school kids to be good sports, working on the right ways to tackle and block. Then they go home and watch television, and what do they see? Pro players dancing in the end zone and spiking the ball to humiliate opponents, spearing, taking cheap shots...
...with the pigskin earned him the sonorous sobriquet of "The Magnificent Faker." "Struck would fake you right out of the stadium," Cavileer recalls. "One day I ran into Dick Bennick, who was a manager back in 1930 and he said: 'I sit with my friends back in the end zone and I don't have any problems seeing the ball but I never could follow the plays when old Struck was around...