Word: tackler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Isenberg saw very little action on offense last season and none this year. A vicious tackler on defense, and a capable runner and blocker, he will probably play a great deal as offensive quarterback next fall, Valpey said yesterday...
Coach Munro is sticking to the same lineup that clicked against Navy last Saturday. This means that Jim Bell, a crasher, at center forward and Rick Drake, a good tackler, at center half. "Drake is our sparkplug," says Munro, "He's everywhere. He gets the ball and really feeds it forward...
...good. Perhaps Davis and Houston were the best. Each played 54 minutes, blocking and tackling almost faultlessly. Houston made one crashblock which demolished two Bruins and left 25,000 spectators gaping. Davis played opposite Brown star Bill McLellan, and the latter's name sounded out but twice as a tackler on the Stadium P.A. system...
...Hard Tackler...
...When a Cambridge tackler was flattened, he had the un-Harvard discourtesy to bounce up and go flatten the guy with the ball." By exhibiting consistently fine down field blocking, individual tackling, and ground defenses as a whole, the attack of a very strong team was rendered pointless. Art Valpey put it another way: "When they turned the corner, they could taste...