Word: fullback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, is one of noise-loud, blasting, unrelenting rock 'n' roll from the Gordian Knot, The Factory's regular weekday band-and familiar faces. Any night the whirling dervishes can include Roz Russell, Barbra Streisand, Sonny and Cher, Dress Designer Jimmy Galanos, Financier Bart Lytton, and Fullback-turned-Actor Jim Brown, who tells friends he feels at home at The Facto ry, proves it by rarely missing an evening. As for The Factory's founders, they have their own soundproof inner sanctum-soon to be opened to the membership at large-which is at present...
...Oakland Raiders, of course-and in their techniques, talent and toughness, Coach Johnny Rauch's Raiders bear a strong resemblance to those fellows the Packers see when they shave in the morning. Like the Packers, the Raiders are essentially a running ballclub; in Halfback Pete Banaszak and Fullback Hewritt Dixon, Oakland has two long-striding, flat-footed runners who closely resemble Green Bay's Donny Anderson and Chuck Mercein. Against Houston, Dixon rambled for 144 yds., and Banaszak gained...
...Daryle Lamonica is the A.F.L.'s No. 1 passer and its Player of the Year. Lamonica can throw the ball even farther than Green Bay's Starr, but against the Packers' superb secondary, he probably will settle for short "swings," "look-ins" and "square-outs" to Fullback Dixon, Flanker Pete Biletnikoff and Tight End Billy Cannon, a converted halfback who is a threat to go all the way any time...
...best example of the Packer mystique that blurs objective analysis just as the Yankee pinstripes used to do is fullback Chuck Mercein. Since he started for Green Bay in its playoffs, no one has mentioned that he is the worst fullback in either the NFL or the AFL. The glory days of Taylor and Hornung have blinded people to the fact that Anderson plus Mercein is not a running attack...
...departure from previous All-Ivy form, the coaches did not match players to specific positions, but rather voted for five forwards and five backs, disregarding halfback-fullback's distinctions...