Word: fullback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goal to Go. At halftime, Purdue's lead was 12-10, and Quarterback Griese wondered aloud whether he ought to be doing something different out there. Lord no, gasped startled Coach Mollenkopf, "Just keep passing!" Griese did: in the third quarter, he flipped a 12-yd. bullet to Fullback Randy Minniear that put Purdue in front 18-10. Then Griese got greedy. Trying to hit Halfback Jim Finley, he hit Notre Dame's Tony Carey instead; on the very next play, Irish Halfback Bill Wolski sprinted 54 yds. for a TD, and a two-point conversion tied...
...mild surprise has been Skip Sviokia, who accompanies Dave Davis at the tackle spots. Sviokia, a converted fullback, put on a fine show against Holy Cross, recovering a fumble and making several key tackles...
...Only at fullback does the Crimson have problems. Alex Patton missed almost all of the pre-season drills, so Karl Lunkenheimer and Tony Marks will probably start at fullback until he is in shape...
...games in the last two years, and has beaten the Quakers only twice in 32 meetings. Penn has had five straight losing seasons, and may have trouble adjusting to the T-formation. But the Quakers have the largest group of returning lettermen in the League, headed by All-Ivy fullback Bruce Molloy. Experience plus Molloy's running and kicking ability should equal a narrow victory...
Died. Earl Louis ("Curly") Lambeau, 67, founder and longtime coach of the Green Bay Packers pro football team, a former Notre Dame fullback, who in 1919 talked Wisconsin's Indian Packing Co. into bankrolling a team, over the next 31 years led it to 234 victories and six National Football League championships through his development of the forward pass; of a heart attack; in Sturgeon...