Word: flankers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle linebacker is a castoff from the Buffalo Bills, and the kickoff-return specialist is a refugee from Toronto in the Canadian League. The cornerback was dismissed as "a troublemaker" by the Washington Redskins; the flanker was cut by the New York Giants be cause he refused to shave off his long sideburns. The quarterback is a college dropout with one good leg and a con suming interest in "golf and girls, but mostly girls." Who are they? Who else...
...boys were cracking helmets last week. It was championship all over again at San Diego, where the hometown Chargers played the Buffalo Bills-the same team that demolished them 23-0 for the A.F.L. title last year. The Chargers were bent on revenge, and they got it, as Flanker Lance Alworth caught a pass for one touchdown, set up another with a crushing block, and San Diego...
...N.F.L.'s Detroit Lions were trying to cope with a mass training-camp holdout by veterans demanding pay increases that would put them on a par with untried bonus rookies. Among the balkers: All-N.F.L. Guards John Gordy and Ted Karras, Ends Darris McCord and Ron Kramer, Flanker Pat Studstill, and Defensive Back Bruce Maher. The Baltimore Colts were minus their two top pass receivers, Raymond Berry and Jimmy Orr, and the St. Louis Cardinals had two holdouts: Center Bob DeMarco and Split End Sonny Randle...
Scores to Settle. The Chargers ranked No. 1 in the league both in total offense and total defense. They had the A.F.L. 's top passer in Quarterback John Hadl, the top rusher (1,121 yds.) in Halfback Paul Lowe, the best pass receiver in Flanker Lance Alworth, and a monstrous (276 Ibs. per man) defensive line anchored by the biggest man in football: 6-ft. 9-in., 315-lb. Ernie Ladd. What's more, they had already clobbered the Bills once this season, 34-3. The odds makers made San Diego a 6½-point favorite. "According...
...rushing this season (with 1,440 yds.), and last week he became the second Negro (the first: Syracuse's Ernie Davis in 1961) to win the Heisman Trophy as the year's best college player. Small as running pro-halfbacks go, he will probably be converted to flanker. "Out there he'll get the daylight he needs...