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...touchdowns, breaking virtually every passing record in the Pacific Eight Conference. This season, deftly mixing short bullets with long bombs, Plunkett was all but untouchable. In the opener he led Stanford to a 34-28 win over Arkansas by constantly outfoxing the defense. Noting that Plunkett completed ten first-down passes in 15 third-down situations, Arkansas Coach Frank Broyles marveled: "That's great quarterbacking...
Stark points to Zimmerman's first-down bootlegs and his quickness to run counter-plays off the series he sets up as examples of skillful playcalling...
Early in the fourth quarter, with third and five to go, Johanson made the first of his two clearly poor calls of the game. Twice, with the ball on the Princeton 25, he fired long passes incomplete to Keohane and Stahura when an attempt for first-down yardage seemed in order...
Notre Dame needed vital first-down yardage, Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi called for Notre Dame's bread & butter boy, Johnny Lattner. In twelve carries, Johnny twisted and power-drove through Navy...
After one incompleted pass, Lowenstein threw another, also incomplete, to end Paul Crowley on the 24. Safety man Mike Zinkiewicz had climbed Crowley's back, moving the officials to call the pass complete for interference and to award the Crimson a first-down...