Word: pennington
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Jackson is the best quarterback that the crimson will face this year, and his adeptness, at picking apart defenses will be a challenge to the Crimson defenders, especially in the secondary. Compared to Phil Pennington, the UMass passer who gave Harvard fits in the season's opener, Jackson's passing ability probably poses more of a threat...
...other hand--in the season's opener against UMass--Harvard displayed a frighteningly passive defense, featuring a porous secondary and a sleepy-eyed linebacking corps that allowed itself to be riddled by the passing of one Peil Pennington, en route to an ignoble 28-19 setback...
...other side of the coin, of course, landed in the opening game fiasco with UMass. The Amherst contingent ran roughshod over the Harvard defense for 367 yards total offense, and 210 of those yards came from Pennington's deadly right arm. The Crimson secondary could not blunt the UMass serials, and the Harvard zone was thoroughly ineffective. Pennington was irrepressible against Harvard, hitting the quick slant pattern at will. These thrusts into the belly of the zone accounted for over 150 yards alone. The rest of the Harvard defense had its share of lapses too, and the Crimson gave...
...games into the season, and we've seen the best and worst of Crimson football. But will the evil and good persist as the season unfolds? Are Crone's boys as good as the BU game? Are the deep men as bad as Pennington made them look? With Harvard's first real test rearing up this weekend in New York City against Columbia, Restic has to find out and fast. Columbia is too good a team to foot around with Harvard if the Crimson can't cut it. Frank Navarro's boys think they...
...Pennington ruined an otherwise perfect prediction record for me, but as Nathan Pusey '28 commented upon waking up from the Crimson's 0-0 tie with UMass in 1963. "These early season tilts don't mean diddly-shit...