Word: lineman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pochop, a powerful 6-2, 210 pound lineman, was the Crimson's outstanding tackle and played an average of just under 48 minutes per game. He missed one game due to an injury...
...TACKLES: Carl Eller, 21, Minnesota, 6 ft. 5½in., 245 lbs.; and Scott Appleton, 21, Texas, 6 ft. 3 in., 239 lbs. Says a report on Eller: "Tends to be lazy, but seems to play his best games when head-to-head with another outstanding lineman. Can go to 275 lbs." On Appleton: "Great lateral moves and pursuit. Almost impossible to knock off his feet." Also ranked high on the pro scouts' list are two small-college tackles: Buffalo's Gerry Philbin, 22 (6 ft. 2 in., 235 lbs.) and Louisville's Ken Kortas...
...with 18 minutes left in the game Chris Ohiri scored on a unusual triple head play. A corned kick by Morgan Hudson was headed by Ohiri towards the Penn cage, where a fullback headed it back out to the quick Nigerian lineman, who bounced it off his forehead into the goal...
...come? Well, deadpans the foundation, which in previous years has honored such All-American names as Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy, "Blough may not have been one of football's greatest players, but he was certainly one of the pluckiest ... an undersized, hard-playing lineman for an outmanned varsity...
Friday was cold, dreary, wet and generally miserable. As one Crimson lineman put it, "it was not a very good day to play football." With occasional exceptions, the Crimson did not play great football that afternoon...