Word: hornung
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Breaking Their Morale. Last year Lombardi also had the impressive services of Paul Hornung. a wondrous halfback who, in the day of the specialist, can run, pass, kick or block-and proved it by scoring a record 176 points in 1960. This year Hornung wrenched his knee badly. sat it out on the bench half the season-when he was not posing for ads. The loss would cripple almost any other team. Yet, filling in for Hornung at halfback. Tom Moore scored seven touchdowns, averaged 3.1 yds. every time he carried the ball. Handling Hornung's place-kicking chores...
...Fordham Law ("because my Dad wanted it"), played weekend football for a minor-league pro team that called itself the Brooklyn Eagles. In 1939, he took his first coaching job - as an assistant football coach at tiny (600 students) St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, NJ. His HALFBACK HORNUNG...
...Guard Fred Thurston was a three-time loser (Chicago. Philadelphia. Baltimore) when Lombardi rescued him from obscurity in a trade with the Colts. About 50% of today's Packers were already on the roster, but nobody would have known it: Jim Taylor was a second-string fullback; Paul Hornung was a sometime quarterback, sometime halfback, sometime fullback, who spent most of his time in a state of total confusion. "Before Lombardi arrived. I was a jumping jack." says Hornung. ''When he came, everything changed. He said. 'You're going to be my left halfback, period...
Nothing Artful. There was nothing artful about the Packers. Green Bay simply demolished its opponents. Coach Vince Lombardi sent in Guard Jerry Kramer to take over Hornung's place-kicking chores: Kramer booted five field goals in six tries and 16 straight extra points. Throwing the ball just often enough to keep enemy defenses opened up, Quarterback Bart Starr boasted the best completion percentage (63%) in the league. But with high-scoring (146 points last season) Halfback Hornung out of action, the man who carried the mail was log-legged, bull-headed Fullback Jim Taylor, who is without doubt...
...leads all pro rushers with 934 yds. (Brown has only 561), is tied for fourth in scoring with 60 points, has averaged 6.1 yds. every time he carried the ball. Last week against the Chicago Bears, Taylor put on a one-man show that a Brown or a Hornung would be hard-pressed to match: he carried the ball 25 times, bulled for four touchdowns and 124 yds. The entire Chicago Bears backfield picked up only 65 yds. on the ground...