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...game's only touchdown was scored when cornerback Peter Landry put a little touch into his cast-iron hands and intercepted a Nieman pass, running it back 64 yards...
Dartmouth came right back by hitting at Harvard's one glaring defensive weakness--the long pass--as quarterback Steve Stetson hit Tyrone Byrd in stride on a 59-yard scoring bomb. Harvard Cornerback Barry Malinowski was the cleanly beaten victim...
...pass to Tight End Richard Caster. A few minutes later, the Colts scored, narrowing the Jets' margin to three points. When New York got the ball again, Namath called a pass play that could have gone to one of three receivers. Meanwhile the Colts had inserted a fresh cornerback, Rex Kern, No. 44, into the secondary; his primary responsibility was covering Caster. As Namath dropped back, Kern, fresh from an injury, tried to pick up the speedy Jet tight end. Namath recalls with a grin: "As I was getting ready to throw, I just saw a big, clean...
...threat of a Staubach run is as damaging to defenses as the run itself. When he scrambles into his broken figure-eight patterns, swooping toward the line of scrimmage and then veering back again, defenses are gripped by a will-he-or-won't-he perplexity. Says Jet Cornerback Earlie Thomas: "In the time he's running around, your man can run two or three pass patterns, and if he runs two or three, he might beat you on one." After seeing him chased for many a zigzagging yard last week, 49er Assistant Coach Paul Wiggin marveled...
...films prove little. Two plays are in question, both in the first quarter of Saturday's game. One is on a faked bootleg, when Pollock is tackled away from the main action by cornerback Steve Golden. On the other play, Spencer Dreischarf obviously steps on Pollock, who is on the ground after pitching out to Rick Klupchak...