Word: halfback
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Schwartzwalder does tend to mention unbalanced lines, eight-man blocking fronts and halfback option passes, most of his stories are about ball carriers, a sequence of unbelievable runners, all of them wearing No. 44. "Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, Floyd Little," he says with a snap in his voice, though his own number now is 78. "They never knew what they did. They just did it. Perfect instincts. Larry Csonka's instinct was to drop his shoulder and run over you. That worked too." Because Csonka started as a lineman, he never wore 44. Joe Morris was offered the number...
After the next play--a run up the middle--was negated by a penalty, the Cross elected to try a halfback option pass. Lockbaum, the Cross' Heisman Trophy candidate, raced right with a Wiley pitch and then hit Crusader tight end Randy Pedro in the endzone...
Holy Cross scored again four minutes later when halfback-flanker-cornerback Gordie Lockbaum, promoted as "Heisman Trophy candidate Goride Lockbaum," took a hand-off at the Harvard 10, danced around left end, and made a beautiful cut-back to prance untouched into the endzone for his 17th touchdown of the season...
Most Unnotable Notable Play of the Week: With 7:41 remaining in the second quarter, Harvard halfback Rufus Jones returned to the field for the first time in two years after being sidelined with a knee injury...
...from the Green 34, Rorke found Anderson for an eight-yard gain. A run on second down was thwarted, Rorke and his halfback crossed signmals, and the ball fell to the turf before Rorke fell...