Word: hornung
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco's Kezar Stadium last week stocky, swarthy Vince Lombardi, late of Brooklyn, made himself the idol of the state of Wisconsin. With Halfback Paul Hornung scoring every point, Coach Lombardi's Green Bay Packers won a 13-0 victory over the San Francisco Forty-Niners. The win put the surprising Packers in first place in the National Football League's Western Conference, set them up for a finish fight with 1959's champion Baltimore Colts...
...time at all, Lombardi realized that the Packers had just the kind of back he was looking for: Paul Hornung, ex-Notre Dame quarterback and former golden boy of college football. Like Lombardi's theories, Hornung went against the trend of the pros. In a league of specialists, Hornung could do nothing supremely: his passing, speed and power were only fair. What Hornung could do was play solid football tough enough to please even Lombardi. "You're my left halfback," Lombardi told Hornung. "The only way you can get out of it is to get killed...
...Dark. Before Lombardi's arrival, recalls Hornung, "I wanted to get out of Green Bay. I had been wandering around in a daze-quarterback, halfback, fullback. Having a coach's backing was like coming out of the dark...