Word: pennington
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wind, explaining that it's harder to throw long passes than short passes on a windy day, and Harvard likes to throw long. UMass astutely solved the wind problem by throwing short passes, and if you want to know how much the wind bothered UMass quarterback Peil Pennington, ask Barry Malinowski...
...afford the loss of Golden who, on the afford the loss of Golden, who, on the basis of a strong pre-season performance, had been heavily counted on to provide much-needed secondary help. The Crimson pass defense in Saturday's game was porous at best, and Pennington's pinpoint possing devastated the belly of the zone with slant patterns and clothes. The Umass serial attack gained 210 yards passing on the afternoon, and over 150 yards of that come on patterns run into the vulnerable midsection of the some...
Poor field position and a face mask penalty again combined to sink the Crimson, this time permanently. Taking over on the Harvard 44. Pennington took advantage of the penalty and ran the ball in himself after five straight rushing plays...
...both passes to Schubert, Pennington diagnosed a Harvard linebacker blitz and called an audible sending Schubert slanting over the middle, isolating him against Harvard defensive back Barry Malinowski in a man-to-man situation. During the course of the game the linebacker blitz nailed Pennington once for Harvard, while Pennington nailed Harvard for over 150 yards with the slant...
...Harvard, for all its defensive "flexibility," kept blitzing. Pennington kept calling slant-ins, and Malinowski spent the afternoon schasing Schubert. Malinowski was the team leader in tackles with ten, fulfilling a football adage that if the safety is a team's leading tackler, the team's in trouble...