Word: ken
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...sophomore year, Rick Slager was the favored quarterback of Coach Dan Devine, though the leading receiver at the time, Ken MacAfee, still wonders why. According to MacAfee, "The pattern began to be that Rick Slager would start the game and then Montana would have to come in and save it." Joe sat out the entire season in 1976 with a separated shoulder, extending his eligibility one year and increasing his frustration...
...going to compliment Ken Anderson and get away with it. Anderson, 32, hailed last week by a florid Cincinnati sportswriter as "Jack Armstrong come to life in a football uniform," is the classic aw-shucks hero, resolutely unquotable, eager to point out that he is merely one cog in the great Bengal machine. That machine indeed has some brilliant parts, finely tuned by its no-nonsense coach, Forrest Gregg. One All-Pro wide receiver, Veteran Isaac Curtis, has been joined by another, exuberant Rookie Cris Collinsworth. Pete Johnson, a.k.a. the human bowling ball, is a hard-hitting, if not overwhelming...
...career devoted to self-effacement, and conducted in Cincinnati, naturally leads to the question, Who is Ken Anderson? All football fans remember that he comes from an unlikely Lutheran institution in Rock Island, Ill., "little-known Augustana College" (in footballese, adjective and noun are welded together, as in "wartorn Middle East"). Also little known is the general opinion that if N.F.L. computers were programmed to construct the ideal quarterback, they would spit out Kenny Anderson. He is strong, quick (4.8 sec. over 40 yds.), with outstanding peripheral vision and, at 6 ft. 3 in., tall enough to throw over...
...pretty loose. Things couldn't have got any worse," says Anderson. He passed for 252 yds., beating the Jets 31-30. After that, the team jelled under Gregg's strong coaching, and Anderson stayed healthy behind the team's first good offensive line in years. Said Ken: "I've gone from the doghouse to the penthouse in just one season." Characteristically, he never said a word about the constant booing and has remained as unflappable in triumph as in defeat. Last week, when Anderson was named the N.F.L.'s Most Valuable Player, Bill Walsh said...
...Francisco's secondary, which includes three rookies, contained the passing attack of league MVP Ken Anderson. The 49er linemen aided their backs, sacking Anderson four times...