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...Last Saturday, he ran the halfback option twice. And one of Pete Varney's few chances to touch the ball this season came in the third quarter when, on a second down. Harrison threw to him for a 16-yard gain. "He rates with the best running back prospects we've had," coach John Yovicsin said early in the fall...
...bomb. Hornblower and Harrison almost always carry around end on either one or both of the first two plays. On third down and short. Crim usually gets the call. If the yardage is long, the halfback option is used, or a turn-in pass to Pete Varney, or a draw with Crim...
Dartmouth stopped the sweep. It stopped the counter and returned the option pass for a touchdown. It bottled up Varney. It was not the first team to do it. It might not be the last...
...Crimson used it almost incessantly, and ran the halfback option, the pitchout and the bootleg from it as well. BU stopped the sweep this year. Cornell stopped it. If Dartmouth stops it, and if Harvard refuses to try the deep pass or the swing pass to end Pete Varney, it will not get four touchdowns...
Smith can open the attack with deep passing to Bruce Freeman or sophomore Denis Sullivan, or if he can hit Varney with effective turn-in passes, he should be able to exploit Cornell's short-coverage problems...