Word: lattner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven linemen-roaring another guttural "Y-A-A-A-A-H-H-R-R-R"*-charged like bulls into a row of freshman defenders, who were specially padded, rather like picadors' horses, to withstand the shock. In the same split-second instant, a long-legged halfback named John Lattner sprang from his crouch, took the deft hand-off of the ball from his quarterback, and cracked through the right side of the line with the power of a runaway steer...
...reasonably intelligent football scout on the premises could have diagramed the play in less than a minute, and planned a defense against it a minute later. There would be only one difficulty: in the past three years, no defense yet devised has been able to stop Halfback Lattner from averaging 5 yds. every time he has carried the ball. A rawboned husky who stands 6 ft. 2 in. and weighs 195 Ibs., Lattner is admiringly assessed by Backfield Coach Bill Earley as a power runner. "Some guys, when you get a hand on them, they go down. Not John." Head...
Triple Talents. Lattner is more than a ball carrier. In the two-platoon era of a year ago-when most players were either offensive or defensive specialists, and few ball-carrying halfbacks ever dirtied their hands with a tackle-Johnny Lattner was one of football's rare iron men, a 6c-minute player who enjoyed making a crackling tackle almost as much as he enjoyed lugging the ball. On the offensive, Halfback Lattner was and is a throwback to the days of the genuine triple-threat back; his ability to pass from a running play is a constant threat...
...these manifold talents, Halfback Johnny Lattner, as a Notre Dame junior, got the Maxwell Trophy as the outstanding football player of 1952. and he was the only player to make everybody's All-America team. This year, when two-way players are at a premium with the end of the two-platoon system, when football is again producing iron men instead of wooden specialists, All-America Lattner is taking up where he left...
...quarter Tech went 69 yards in twelve plays to tie the score at 7-7. That seemed to recall to Notre Dame the business of the day; within five minutes it had two more touchdowns. And in the fourth quarter, the clincher was supplied by All-America Halfback Johnny Lattner-the day's leading ground-gainer with 101 yards -who smacked through tackle, standing up, while the crowd chanted "Happy birthday" in honor of Lattner's 21st. Final score...