Word: backfields
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, there were enough crunching blocks and backfield razzle-dazzle to satisfy the fans. The general idea of a draft is for the weakest teams to pick first, thereby spreading the wealth. But the two days of haggling over 445 players produced such a blizzard of trades among the 25 teams that hardly a single player ended up where expected...
...read the Packers' defense. Thanks to Coach Stram, the Chiefs themselves are about as readable as Sanskrit. On offense, they run out of twelve different formations, all of which start out looking like a standard I. And Quarterback Dawson throws from a "movable pocket," shifting around the backfield behind his blockers...
...fails to go all out all the time. Maybe for money he will-but in college he would kill you for three plays, then rest for two." Page's problem, if any, is just the opposite-overeagerness. "He is so quick that he's in the enemy backfield when the ball is snapped...
...League can expect at least one more year of trouble from Providence. The entire backfield will return next season, as well as five experienced forwards. Brown's loses only one star through graduation -- Gary Kaufman, the league's second highest scorer this year with six goals and one assist...
...Choquette, on the other hand, had to work his way up to greatness. He was not very successful his first two years because we kept shuffling him around the backfield. Finally I told him, 'You're our fullback -- that's where you belong.' He's been the team's unsung hero ever since...