Word: breakaways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massucco and Turco are both fine runners (both average four yards or better per try); both are breakaway threats--Turco, for example, has scored ten touchdowns. But Anderson apparently feels that it's easier to pitch a football over the enemy than to run it through him, for Maloy has thrown the ball on more than one-third of the Purple's offensive plays...
...breakaway runners and triple-threat halfbacks who round out most college backfields will be on Soldiers Field today--but they won't he playing crimson jersics...
...triple-threat is vital to any strong offense because his presence in the backfield prevents the ends and backer ups from coming up fast before the play fully develops. The breakaway runner, aside from being a ground gainer, acts us a threat to the weak side defense, thereby spreading the defense...
Captain Phil Isenberg, after a trial run at quarterback, is now at left half. He is only moderately fast, although he runs hard. Dave (Crazy Legs) Warden is the wing back and the powerful West, fullback. Jordan sorely needs a real breakaway back, a "gone with the wind" type of runner who could make the fullback a more potent threat by keeping the weak side defense constantly on the alert...
...wearing a blue necktie patterned with tiny oak-wreathed globes: the design of the U.N. flag. For 22 minutes he talked in his flat, monotonous voice, some-time's with a painfully deliberate slowness, occasionally with a breakaway rush to the end of a jumbled phrase. It was a speech that read better than it sounded. To the world it was, in essence, a restatement of America's desire for peace and determination to resist aggression. To the nation, the President's message was a warning that that desire and determination will have to be paid...