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...just didn't make the big play with the pass," mourned Harvard football coach Joe Restic after reliving his opening game nightmare of a year ago. His players did, however, fumble in the open field, help along two UMass touchdown drives with face-mask penalties, drop an easy interception, call for a fair catch on the Harvard five-yard line, and squib a ten-yard kick-off, as the Crimson welcomed the new season with a deflating 28-19 defeat...
UMass is a considerably better team than Restic's rookie nemesis. Holy Cross, but any Yankee Conference team that can riddle the Harvard defense for four touchdowns and almost 400 yards total offense is going to leave the Harvard, coaches scratching their heads as they try to figure out a few problems, like how to salvage the Crimson's pass defense...
...Restic wants to attack UMass's 4-3 prestyle defense with a balanced attack, establishing a ground game to open up the pass. There isn't a limited game plan as such because Restic's offense doesn't work that way. "We'll know in the first four series what we can do," he said yesterday. "We have the flexibility and the variations. We'll adjust to what they throw...
Defensively, Harvard must stop the pass and contain Metallo and 250-pound fullback Dick Cummings. "We cannot give them the long pass." Restic said in a bit of coachly understatement. "We have to shut off Pennington and contain the ground attack...
HARVARD-UMASS -- UMass isn't bad, but Restic trickery will baffle the Redmen's sophomore defense, although a good UMass quarterback could give Harvard's defensive secondary a long afternoon Harvard...