Word: arnett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slippery Squirt." Growing up in Los Angeles, the Rams' Jon Arnett (5 ft. 11 in., 195 Ibs.) was the smallest kid on his team. He learned to run around tacklers purely as an act of survival ("I was a slippery little squirt"). Arnett began taking tumbling lessons in the sixth grade, is now so agile that he literally has been knocked head-over-heels into the air only to land on one foot and take off in the opposite direction. When frustrated tacklers finally do catch up with him, Arnett knows how to take his lumps...
...Fast Enough." Arnett has turned the 100 in 9-9, and Mitchell in 9.6. Since Lenny Moore never went out for track at Penn State, no one knows how fast he can go, but the answer is plain to every safety man who has ever tried to catch him from behind. Says Baltimore's Coach Weeb Ewbank: "Lenny runs just fast enough." So do the other top breakaway backs. Without them, professional football would be a far less exciting game...