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...George Barnwell plays tailback. Expect the Minutemen to run. They've run more than twice as often as they have passed. RECEIVERS: Restic will shuffle his receivers, with Chuck Shirey--who also handles the punts--getting the starting nod. Lots of speed here, but ability is questionable. Even RECEIVERS: Flanker John Crowley is the leading receiver among a corps that is adequate but seldom-used. That might change this week with Simeone in the lineup. Inexperienced sophomore Tom Cioppa is the split end. OFFENSIVE LINE: Only George Kostakos returns from last year's starting unit. This group had difficulty getting...
...post best was Rightfielder Kirk Gibson, of all people, and so if he is not "the new Mickey Mantle," maybe he is the new Kirk Gibson. By dimension and disposition, Gibson continues to be the football player he was at Michigan State, a 6-ft. 3-in., 215-lb. flanker. "A very natural game for me," he said, "football came easy." It only appears that baseball should be simple for a muscleman fast and strong enough to take his homers inside the park or over the roof. After exaggerating his promise by batting .328 in the strike-shortened season...
...Super Bowl, gains in perspective represent the toughest yardage of all. Lining up in a prevent defense for 18 years, perspective has been conceding huge slabs of ground to outlandishness. During the early days of Roman numerals, President Nixon was content to recommend flanker-reverse plays. Now President Reagan appears on a split screen to express his nuclear reaction to a 191-yd. performance by Raiders Running Back Marcus Allen. Because of the Super Bowl, the stock market in New York goes down, some bookies in Las Vegas go broke and a water main in Salt Lake City goes blooey...
Johnny Rodgers, the Heisman Trophy-winning flanker of that time, considers this team better. "They're faster than we were," he says. "The Big Eight was the toughest conference in the world in 1971 [Oklahoma and Colorado finished second and third in the Associated Press poll], but some teams are too good to be measured just by opponents. I think our team was, and this team is. We probably had a better defense, with guys like Larry Jacobson, Rich Glover and Willie Harper. Heck, John Button [three-time All-Pro Defensive Tackle for the Dallas Cowboys] played behind Jacobson...
...limits Restic to working with only two or three QBs during the week. He made things easier for the backfield by settling on Gizzi by Monday, rather than waiting until Friday as he often does. Gizzi could also stop wondering what position he would play: he saw action at flanker against Dartmouth. Frustrated at being third on the quarterback list, he met with Restic and offered to shift to another position...