Word: farnham
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year Bob Farnham clutched 56 passes to lead the nation in receiving, as well as breaking a bushel of Brown pass-catching records. He was All-East, All-Ivy and All-Burn-The-Defensive-Secondary, and was the major depth charge in Brown's explosive offense of a season...
...last year that now makes Farnham Public Enemy Number One among Ivy League defenses. Opponents' secondaries have come to regard the senior end as some sort of reincarnated Homer Jones, regularly double and triple-teaming him throughout the game...
...result Farnham has slowed down to ONLY 23 receptions, good enough to lead the Ivies in that department, amidst the CIA coverage he's been drawing. Harvard's Bill Emper, who stuck to Farnham like Dentu-Grip last year at Providence, will most likely cover him alone today, a job about as desirable as being Robert Dole's joke writer. Whether Farnham makes a buck-private out of Harvard's captain in the confrontation remains to be seen...
Despite his relatively unspectacular season thus far (he has yet to catch his first touchdown pass), Farnham needs only seven more catches to become Brown's all-time leading receiver, a mark currently held by Farnham's receiver coach, John Parry...
...game-saving exploits on defense would have Woody shooting his recruiter at sundown if he only knew. Jim Kubacki had the kind of game against Brown last season that Nebraska quarterback Vince Ferragamo yearns to pull off just once. Brown has a passing combination of Paul Michalko to Bob Farnham that make Wishbone-oriented teams look like turkeys...