Word: fullbacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early in the third quarter, 79,544 fans in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium saw Lou ("The Toe") Groza boot a 43-yd. field goal, and suddenly the floodgates opened. Swinging wide to the left, Fullback Brown took a pitchout, cut back, and churned 46 yds. to the Baltimore 18. (Murmured one spectator: "Put a cape on him, and he's Superman.") Quarterback Ryan was a little nervous about calling the next play-a tricky "hook-post" pass to Flanker Gary Collins behind the goal posts. On the same play five times this season he had bounced the ball...
...Michigan: a 34-7 rout of Oregon State, in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena. Spotting the upset-minded Beavers a 7-0 lead, the Big Ten Champion Wolverines roared back on the running of 201-Ib. Fullback Mel Anthony, who scored three times, once on an 84-yd. dash -longest in the Rose Bowl's 51-year history...
There were six unanimous choices; three were from Princeton and two from Cornell. Cosmo Iacavazzi, Princeton's All-American fullback, was a unanimous backfield choice along with Archie Roberts of Columbia and Bob Baker of Cornell...
...written the script. The A.F.L. held an illegal secret draft -well before its officially scheduled draft meeting. And the N.F.L. hired "baby sitters" to hover over prize prospects and keep them out of the clutches of A.F.L. recruiters. An N.F.L. scout named Dick Pollard tagged along incognito when Indiana Fullback Tom Nowatzke flew to New York and talked contract with the A.F.L.'s New York Jets. The unwitting Jets gave Pollard a chatty tour of Shea Stadium ("Nice," said the spy) and allowed him to sit in on salary negotiations, thinking he was the boy's financial adviser...
Chuck Mercein sat on the Yale bench last Saturday, his thigh so swollen from a massive hemorrhage that he could only hobble. As he watched, Harvard held his team and his replacement at fullback, Pete Cummings, without a first down for the entire fourth quarter. Yale lost...