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...late arrival of Coach Red Blaik's charges will probably keep the Crimson from practicing in the Stadium. Usually the visiting team occupies the Stadium from 3 to 4 p.m. on Fridays and the varsity moves in a few minutes later. But Army won't get going until shortly after 3:30 p.m., and Art Valpey would rather use the precious daylight minutes working in the fenced in practice enclosure than waiting for the Black Knights to finish in the Stadium...
...Howard Odell's system the bucking backs were at right and left halfback, while the end runner and passer is at fullback. Hickman, like Red Blaik, calls for one bucking back at fullback and two running and passing halfbacks. The accent on running and passing halfbacks is just another indication that both at Harvard and Yale football is becoming more and more pure offense...
Second, Odell used more quick-opening plays, while Hickman employs considerable single wing blocking with his plays. Herman reflects the experience of Red Blaik at Army that a well drilled team need not lose deception by slower-opening plays, which use more dependable single wing blocking...
...Under Blaik's new two-platoon system, Cain & Stephenson operate only on offense. They trot out on the field when the Cadets have the ball, trot off when the enemy...
Coach Tuss McLaughry explained his half of this phenomenon after the game. "We had expected to go around the ends, but we couldn't, so we tried the other way." He was as high on Houston as Red Blaik and Lou Little have been previously; he admitted almost apologetically that his team made its yardage "by trapping the middle of the line...