Word: halfbacks
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...scene is Soldiers Field, the fall of 1979, and the Harvard field hockey team is playing Penn. The Crimson goalie is out of position and the Quaker forward eludes her defender and slams the ball towards the net Right halfback Sara LeBlond leaps into the goal, and stops the blast with her bare hand...
...intractables," possessed with "an inordinate desire to be arrested." Max Lerner praised his "Faustian thirst for life"; Upton Sinclair dismissed him as a "playboy of the social revolution." Journalist and playwright, Harvard cheerleader and Moscow radical, consciousness-and hellraiser, Reed embraced contradictions as he ran like an Ivy League halfback through an archetypal American life-full, frustrated, tragically short. He knew everybody, did everything. His life was a passionate sonnet scrawled on a Wobbly poster-and when he finished the poem he died, in 1920, three days before his 33rd birthday. Jack Reed: artist-adventurer...
...watch Ron Cuccia and the Multiflex try to solve the Eli defense, the league's stingiest. He will mix his plays, offering Yale a dive by Callinan here, a flip to Acheson there, the quarterback-in-motion play (with a few new twists. perhaps). and maybe even a halfback option, too. And whether he succeeds or fails, it will be interesting...
...when I was a sophomore in high school. Sure, some strange things have to happen (and after watching Penn last week I have trouble believing the Quakers could beat Hanover High, much less Dartmouth), but that's what Ivy League football is all about, strange things happening. Like halfback options and quarterback-in-motion plays, and the worst team beating the best team more often than not. It's crazy, but then lots of things around here are crazy...
...Game (how long has it been since you heard anyone call it anything else?) and it all starts at 1 p.m. at the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn., and I will be there by 11:30 ready to go, my eyes on the field. If there's a halfback option this year. I won't miss...