Word: fullback
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fullback Bill Grana leads the team with an impressive average of 5.4 yards per carry and Mike Bassett has provided unexpected passing strength with five touchdowns to date. With additional running talent in halfbacks Hoble Armstrong. Bill Taylor and Scott Harshbarger. Harvard boasts a balanced offense that should keep the Bruins off stride...
After threatening for the whole period, Holy Cross finally managed to score on a wobbly 34-yard pass from quarterback Brian Flatley to fullback Ken Kluxen...
...points. Throwing the ball just often enough to keep enemy defenses opened up, Quarterback Bart Starr boasted the best completion percentage (63%) in the league. But with high-scoring (146 points last season) Halfback Hornung out of action, the man who carried the mail was log-legged, bull-headed Fullback Jim Taylor, who is without doubt the toughest player, pound for pound, in the National Football League...
...Shadow. A onetime fullback at Louisiana State University, Jim Taylor, 27, is in his fifth pro season, and for four of those years, he has played in the shadow of Cleveland's great fullback, Jimmy Brown. In 1961, Taylor was runner-up to Brown in rushing (1,307 yds. to 1,408), and in the voting for all-star fullback. This year, Taylor is the man to beat. He leads all pro rushers with 934 yds. (Brown has only 561), is tied for fourth in scoring with 60 points, has averaged 6.1 yds. every time he carried the ball...
...rolled out on an play and made 20 yards to his own 41. At this point Wood found a soft spot in the left side of the Leverett line and played it for all it was worth. With Bill Risser and Al Friend blocking ferociously, Wood sent his powerful fullback, Keith Striggow, barreling into the line five straight times before the drive was halted by a fumble on the Leverett...