Word: fullback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Linemen get bigger and defenses get cannier, but nothing stops the Cleveland Browns' fullback Jimmy Brown, 27. In this year's opener against Washington, he scored three touchdowns on dazzling bursts of 10, 80 and 83 yds. He gained 162 yds. on the ground (v. 71 yds. for the whole Washington team), caught three passes for another 100 yds. Cleveland won the game...
Once in sight of the goal line, however, Mass stiffened and Harvard hesitated. Second team fullback Stan Yastrzemski investigated seeming openings at left and right guard without success. Then halfback Walter Grant, on a play called in from the bench, carried into right tackie, but could not find the opening. Finally, fullback Bill Grana, now back in the game, took the ball on what was supposed to be an end run but ended up in a blind alley at right tackle. The virginity of its end zone unimpaired, the Mass team left the field engulfed in an appreciative roar from...
...formation that could cause trouble today is the tight slot, a ploy which spreads the end a few yards and puts a half- back in the slot. With this set up Whelchel can either pass to the end or the back, hand-off to the other half or the fullback for a slash off-tackle, or keep the ball himself and test his luck...
Whelchel, Lewis, halfback Phil DeRose, and fullback Mike Ross work behind a two-unit line with both bulk and speed. Last week at Maine Fusia used both lines interchangeably, and seemed equally satisfied with both...
...stop Pelé-short of mayhem. Desperate opponents trip him, tug at his jersey, aim vicious kicks at his shins and groin. The tactics rarely work. In a game against Argentina in 1961. Pelé was on his way to a score when a burly Argentine fullback knocked him flat. The referee signaled a foul. But in the split second it took to toot the whistle, Pelé had already leaped up and kicked the goal. The awed ref wrapped his arms around Pelé, apologized and reversed his ruling to let the goal count...