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...This was the first time all season that we've been able to set up our passing attack with a good running game. Moving (Jeff) Dufresne (102 yds. in 27 carries) to tailback really helped us, and I was very pleased with our offensive line considering the injuries we've had," Yukica said...
...second quarter of a football game between Texas Christian University and the University of Alabama. Already behind 14-0, the underdog Texans gave the ball to their junior tailback, Kent Waldrep, 20. Sweeping around the right end, he quickly ran into the Crimson Tide's crushing defense. As two players tried to push him out of bounds on the Alabama 40-yd. line, a third crashed into his legs from behind. Waldrep was hit so hard he flipped over and landed headfirst. Texas went on to lose, 41-3. But for Waldrep that game in 1974 was an even...
RUNNING BACK--A bumper crop, led by Cornell tailback Joe Holland, who will undoubtedly win the Asa Bushnell cup for the Ivy player of the year. Harvard's first-rate scooter, Ralph Polillio, joins Holland on the first team at the halfback spot. Brown's Marty Moran weighs in as the first-team fullback, leaving Dartmouth's Jeff Dufresne, Penn's Denis Grosvenor, Yale's Ken Hill and Princeton's Cris Crissy on the second team. (Harvard's P. Wayne Moore makes the all one-game team for his brilliant performance against Columbia for breaking his ankle...
...Crimson handled Colgate easily, but lost by five to Cornell when a superlatively skilled tailback named Joe Holland punished the Harvard defense for 244 yards in the customary Cornell game downpour...
...Bulldogs ripped the yardage out in consistent, small-sized chunks, with O'Brien and tailback Ken Hill (95 half yards) leading the effort. O'Brien himself took it in for the score at 6:12 on a zig-zag option keeper that may be the finest running play seen at The Stadium this year...