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...League's New York Jets. Werblin collects quarterbacks. He had three last season, and they cost him $48,000. Now he has six. He picked up Virginia Tech's Bob Schweickert for a song, but he had to shell out $200,000 for Notre Dame's Heisman Trophy winner, John Huarte. And to land Alabama's Joe Namath, he went all the way to $400,000-the highest price ever paid for a rookie in the history of pro football...
Bookmakers made Notre Dame an eleven-point favorite, and the spread looked puny at half time. A 25-yd. field goal started off the Notre Dame scor ing-and then Quarterback John Huarte, winner of the Heisman Trophy as the nation's top college player, took charge of the relentless Irish attack. A 21 -yd. pass to All-America End Jack Snow made it 10-0, and a pitchout to Halfback Bill Wolski hiked the score to 17-0. In the Southern Cal dressing room, Coach John McKay tried to buoy up his downhearted Trojans: "If we can score...
...barbers were Harvard's defensive line and the victim was Archie Roberts, Columbia's all-Ivy Quarterback and Heisman Trophy candidate. Roberts had the worst day of his career as his team lost to Harvard 3-0 on Maury Dullea's last minute field goal...
...throwing, passed for one touchdown and scored the other one himself. Last year he directed Columbia to a 3-3 tie with Harvard, and helped cost the Crimson a share of the Ivy titlo. This year he's supposed to be a leading candidate for the Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the country's best college football player...
...other season, on any other team, Quarterback Carlisle might long ago have caught the fancy of sportswriters with his nifty short passes (33 completions in 79 attempts) and nimble rollout runs. But this was the Year of the Quarterback; compared to such wizardrous performers as Navy's Heisman Trophy Winner Roger Staubach, Carlisle was a face in the crowd. At that, No. 1-ranked Texas was hardly the showcase for a quarterback. Grinding over ten straight opponents by a score of 215 to 65, Coach Darrell Royal's Longhorns stuck to the ground so doggedly that wags cracked...