Word: agajanian
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...Fullback Billy Ray Barnes across to score. But when Notre Dame's Paul Hornung (Green Bay Packers) missed the extra point, the All-Stars had to settle for a 6-0 lead. The Giants settled for something more: crack performances by two of their oldest, saltiest veterans. Ben Agajanian, 38, Giant kicking master for seven years, stepped delicately onto the muddy field to score a three-point field goal. In the second quarter, Quarterback Charley Conerly, 33, master of the wet ball, passed the pros into a 10-6 lead...
Conerly's pinpoint passing and Agajanian's accurate kicking pushed the Giants into a steadily widening lead. Final score: 22-12. For the Giants, it was just as well. They had to win. Not since 1938 had a Giant team won the pro championship, been privileged to play against the college boys...
Almost from the start the race was a spectacular, bitter duel between Troy Ruttman, driving an Agajanian Special, and Bill Vukovich, in a Fuel Injection Engine Special. Ruttman took the lead on the twelfth lap of the 2½-mi. brick and tar speedway. Vukovich, out after the $100-a-lap prize money, grabbed it back again on 13, held it to 55, when he made a fast stop for oil. Then Ruttman popped back in front. On lap No. 83, Vukovich took the lead again and Ruttman's car, a lap later, lost time fighting a fire under...