Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victory over Dallas was a typical Packer production fashioned out of both guts and guile. The thermometer in Green Bay stood at 13 below zero, and a 15-m.p.h. wind created a "chill factor" equivalent to 49 below. Packer Quarterback Bart Starr was forced to eat the ball eight times because his receivers were unable to cut properly on the icy field (something the CBS TV cameras never showed). Yet in thelast 5 min., as Dallas led 17-14, Starr coolly, carefully marched his team 69 yds., then took the ball across himself in the final...
...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...
Since they are unlikely to find much outside running room against Green Bay's rugged corner linebackers, Dave Robinson and Lee Roy Caffey, the Raiders are expected to concentrate on trap plays up the middle-hoping to catch the Packers' hard-charging defensive linemen out of position. Key man in the success or failure of Oakland's running game is Gene Upshaw, a 6-ft. 5-in., 255-lb. rookie from Texas A. & I. who is already regarded as one of the best running guards in pro ball...
...that the Raiders can't pass. With 220 completions in 425 attempts, Quarterback 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...
Jimmy the Conservative. Green Bay's great advantage over Oakland is on defense. The Packer "front four," led by All-Pro End Willie Davis, is one of the strongest in history-although the Raiders boast some fearsome pass rushers of their own, notably Tackle Tom Keating, a 247-pounder who runs 40 yds. in 5.3 sec. in his football gear. Therein lies a certain danger. Confident of this rush, Oakland's cocky cornerbacks have developed the habit of playing opposing pass receivers extremely tight to cut off the short pass, assuming that there...