Word: fullbacks
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Nothing helped. Though undefeated, Syracuse squeaked through game after game, was the flop of the football year because it seemed to be living on its reputation as last year's national champion. Last week Coach Ben Schwartzwalder even threatened to demote some of his stars, including 215-lb. Fullback Art Baker, a preseason All-America candidate. Snapped Coach Ben: "If any of you boys sulk about being put on the second team and don't play well there, we'll see how you like it on the third team...
...have more talent and more learning ability than the specialist. If we don't get the top backfield star of a high school, we look for the second best man with the hope he can be converted into a first-rate lineman. I especially like to get fullbacks overlooked by the 'money schools' -a high school coach will always put his biggest, strongest kid at fullback...
Around this basic maneuver Schwartzwalder has built a system of plays that unfold with the relentless logic of a theorem in geometry. "We keep slamming that fullback off-tackle, and the defense has to bunch up to stop us. So the quarterback will fake the ball to the fullback and run outside himself, or pitch out to the tailback who's trailing him. Now they've got to bring up their secondary. That leaves them weak for option passes thrown by the tailback...
Last year, in six Ivy games, the Crimson was scored upon four times. Those were the good old days. Only one man--fullback Tim Morgan--remains from the 1959 defensive watch; and, inexplicably, he has not been the speedy, steady performer everyone expected...
...coach Bruce Munro's defensive woes, Sandy Corteal, Morgan's fullback partner, has not been kicking the ball well in recent outings. And goalies Bob Forbush and John Adams have not been equal to the increased bombardment...