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...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...
Sinking Navy. Last week Lattner & Co. faced a fired-up Navy team which had rolled up 158 points against its opponents while yielding only 35, and which was relying heavily on its underdog chance of upsetting Notre Dame. But Notre Dame's Fighting Irish were fired up, too. Their revered Coach Frank Leahy had been rushed to the hospital with stomach spasms midway in the Georgia Tech game the week before. He would be watching them from his bedside by television. On the eve of the Navy game, Frank Leahy sent a note to his team asking that...
...downs. Then it began, the famed Notre Dame treatment that has been likened to facing Joe Louis in the ring: a series of rocking left-and-right crunches followed by a knockout. The heavy and hard-charging Notre Dame line seemed to move as one man while Halfbacks Lattner and Joe Heap and Fullback Neil Worden supplied the power punches. Usually, when...