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From there, Montana led the 49ers on a 68-yard drive to the game's first score. After completing five of six passes on the 11-play march, which included a flea flicker to tight end Charle Young, Montana drove over from the one with nine minutes gone in the first period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 49er Victory Climaxes Dream Season | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...have a gifted all-around offense: our longest run is 23 yards on the last play of a half. We have to be resourceful and fully dimensional." And what does fully dimensional mean? "There is basic, rock-solid, block-and-tackle football. Then there is crazy, circus-play, flea-flicker football. We fit somewhere in between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Believers on the Coast | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...Rutland contest is the descendant of a smaller and less volcanic gathering held each summer for eight years in Newfane, Vt., until it outgrew the five-acre tract owned by the father of Promoter Bill Morse. Morse, 29, a quick-talking flea market proprietor who wears a Stetson, a fine clawhammer coat and jeans, says he moved his contest to the state fairgrounds here when neighbors began muttering about the mobs. Now he was wondering whether crowds and contestants would show up in sufficient numbers on this stern October Saturday, when ski trails visible on Killington Mountain a few miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Vermont: A Fiddlers' Contest | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

There is an element of suburbanite garage sale-flea market economic chic in the new bartering boom. Many traders admit to a strong pride in managing their lives with little money. Says Betty Cordell, 39, owner of a Barter Systems franchise in Atlanta: "I would not pay cash for a haircut, for cosmetics or dry cleaning, dental services, medical services or other costs of everyday living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swapathon | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...passing of Ron Cuccia and the razzle-dazzle entries in the Harvard playbook to move the ball, Restic has discovered a secret weapon in his potent running attack. The success of Callinan, Jim Acheson, Jimmy Garvey and others takes the pressure off Cuccia, making the occasional pass or flea flicker more effective. In fact, the offense put 28 points on the board in the first half Saturday without Cuccia completing a pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Top of the Line | 11/5/1981 | See Source »

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