Word: fullback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stars were strangers, of course. Donny ("Do Everything") Anderson, a triple-threat halfback from Texas Tech, had signed a $600,000 contract with Green Bay, and Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski was a $300,000 Packer bonus baby. If anything, that only made it harder on them; the Packers were in no mood to play favorites-particularly with rich rookies who soon would be trying to take their jobs away...
...mistake. On the very first play from scrimmage, Alabama Quarterback Steve Sloan fumbled the ball, Lionel Aldridge recovered for Green Bay, and Packer Quarterback Bart Starr flipped an 11-yd. touchdown pass to End Boyd Dowler. After that, the only question was how big the score would be. Fullback Jim Taylor scored two TDs for the Packers, Starr threw for still another, and alert Green Bay defenders picked off two passes...
...beard, he looked more like a Cuban revolutionary than the best running back in pro football. He sounded pretty revolutionary too. "I want," said James Nathaniel Brown, 30, "to have a hand in the struggle that is going on in our country." Thus Jim Brown (TIME cover, Nov. 26), fullback of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns and the biggest ground gainer (12,312 yds. over nine seasons) in the history of pro football, announced his retirement from the sport that made him famous...
...defense, however, which cost Harvard the Ivy League title last fall, and the fullback line has gone from an erratic one last year to a huge ques- tion mark as the opener approaches...
Junior Dave Wright will be at right full, and sophomore Hillory Worthen will be in Lunkenheimer's left fullback slot. Both Wright and Worthen are greener than the beaten-up field, but unlike last season, a mistake by the fullback won't mean an automatic goal, because Marks theoretically, will be there to back the play...