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...quarter the Crimson held back Dartmouth and got the ball on its own 15 yard line. Harvard drove 56 yards and Casgar completed a 20-yard pass to Gray on Dartmouth's nine-yard line, and then carried the ball over the goal line on a quarterback sneak. The kick attempt was blocked. The final game score was Harvard 13, Dartmouth...
Goalie John Adams could not match Ellington in finesse, but he showed tremendous courage. In the third quarter, an in-bounds kick came flying toward Adams and arrived simultaneously with two beefy Indian attackers...
Instant Flop. In an era of football specialization, versatile Paul Hornung, 25, seems as obsolete as the drop kick. He cannot rifle a pass with the artistic precision of a Unitas. He cannot crunch through the encircling arms of defensive linemen with the raw power of a Brown. He does nothing perfectly-but he does everything well. He runs, he passes, he kicks field goals and extra points. And he does one thing better than anyone else in pro football: scores points. Last year Hornung scored 176 to break an 18-year-old N.F.L. record; in five games this season...
...Hornung played his first regular football game as a sixth-grader at Louisville's St. Patrick's School. Awarded an athletic scholarship to Notre Dame, Hornung quickly caught the eye of canny Coach Frank Leahy. "He runs like a mower going through grass," marveled Leahy. "And his kicking-why, when he reported to me as a freshman, he could punt 80 yds. and place-kick over the crossbar from...
...goes down the sentimental drain. There are two rowdy high spots. At one point, Mr. General's two-star superior (John McGiver) stuns the camp and apoplectrifies himself by Jeeping in on a Greek-styled folk fling, where he finds the cook and Mr. General doing kick-ups (in non-Government-issue evzone skirts and tasseled headgear) to the shrill piping of bouzotiki records. And in Act III there is a court-martial, with the key kooks testifying, that resembles a Marx Brothers movie sequence scripted by Salvador Dali. The cook and Mr. General are both outranked in acting...