Word: fullback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...common draft and a no-poaching rule will eliminate huge bonuses and salaries. "There's a good chance that action will be taken in the courts," says Chicago Attorney Arthur Morse, who negotiated big bonus contracts for Chicago Bears Linebacker Dick Butkus ($100,000) and Green Bay Packers Fullback Jim Grabowski ($250,000). Players might claim that the league was limiting their right to choose the place and price of their employment. To head off such an action, league officials are lobbying for legislation that would exempt pro football from federal antitrust laws...
...also discovered something else--the art of starting from scratch. Scratch was his first junior varsity football game. He managed to center the ball back 39 feet and in the process, hit the fullback, Lothrop Withington Jr. '40, in the head. "Dietz has a great memory of his captain coming up to his locker," Dietz says (he often affects the third person), "and telling him he would be one of the six men who would not make the junior varsity trip to Yale...
Dartmouth relies heavily on senior Pete Barber for its pitching strength. Barber, an All-Ivy soccer fullback, throws sidearm and has excellent control. He has racked up shutouts against both Yale AB Princeton...
Freshman Steve Zietlin tied the score a few minutes later as he smothered an attempted kick deep in the opponents' territory and fell on the ball for a try. Freshman Dick Domingue, who played brilliantly in his fist game at fullback, kicked the two-point conversion to put Harvard in the lead...
...Monday North Carolina State University fell by an identical 3-0 score. Freshman Steve Zeitlin, playing in only his second varsity game, got the three points with a hustling effort as he fell on the free ball beyond the try line after the opposing fullback had trouble handling Dickinson's long kick...