Word: flankers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peers, the Baltimore Colts' Johnny Unitas is considered "a great quarterback, but if you beat his blockers, you beat him." Rookie Fullback Tucker Frederickson of the New York Giants is "strong right now, but in a year he'll hit a little less hard." And Flanker Bobby Mitchell of the Washington Redskins is already "slowing down fast"-at the age of 30. There is only one player in the game today whose ability on field commands almost universal admiration, and that is Jimmy Brown...
...American Football League has Pete Gogolak of Cornell, whose soccer-style kicking helped carry the Buffalo Bills to the league championship last season, flanker Bo Roberson, also of Cornell and the Bills, Dartmouth's Don McKinnon, a linebacker for the Boston Patriots, and Cosmo Iacavazzi, who is bouncing on and off the New York Jets' roster after smashing a bookful of rushing records for Princeton...
...track stars and all pro-football failures. At 6 ft. and 181 lbs., Hayes was also one of the smallest men on the Cowboys' roster, and in early practice sessions he couldn't do anything right. "He batted down the ball instead of catching it," recalls Dallas Flanker Buddy Dial. "He looked like he belonged on defense...
...wide to the left, Fullback Brown took a pitchout, cut back, and churned 46 yds. to the Baltimore 18. (Murmured one spectator: "Put a cape on him, and he's Superman.") Quarterback Ryan was a little nervous about calling the next play-a tricky "hook-post" pass to Flanker Gary Collins behind the goal posts. On the same play five times this season he had bounced the ball off the crossbar. This time he hit Collins on the chest and heaved a sigh of relief. "Whew!" said Ryan later. "For a while I thought for sure that...
...isolated cameras generally vindicate referees, they sometimes make them look bad too. Later in the same game, Baltimore Quarterback Johnny Unitas faded back from his own 42 and hit his flanker, Jimmy Orr, with a 43-yard pass that was apparently going to set up Baltimore's only score. The referee said that Orr had caught the ball out of bounds. But an isolated camera had been watching, and seconds later the TV audience could plainly see that Orr's catch had been in bounds...