Word: lineman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taxi-squad fullback (from the Ivy League, no less). All Weeb needed to make his embarrassment complete was an independently wealthy lineman, and last week he got one when Jets Owner Sonny Werblin signed Michigan's 230-lb. Tackle Bill
...These heart-rending groans, of course, were only a tactical maneuver - designed to keep prices down. Last year competition for talent between the two pro leagues was so intense that a taxi-squad quarterback got $200,000 in bonus money, a first-stringer got $400,000, and a rookie lineman collected $150,000 just for signing a contract. This year the battle for graduating college stars figures to be fiercer than ever, if for no other reason than that each league has one new team to stock from scratch: the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League, the Miami Dolphins...
...TACKLES: Francis Peay, 21, Missouri, 6 ft. 4 in., 246 lbs., and Sam Ball, 21, Kentucky, 6 ft. 4 in., 241 lbs. "If I were poetic," says one scout, "I'd say that Peay was very subtle for a lineman. There is real class in the way he hits people." Ball, says another, is simply "a mean S.O.B." Both are exceptionally agile for big men: "No matter how big a man is, he's going to be caught off balance too often if he hasn't got coordination...
McQuire scored again within 20 seconds, after another Brown lineman stole the Harvard kickoff and passed down the center. McQuire took the ball, dribbled twice, then shot for the corner. Bowditch dived into the quagmire at the goal line, but the ball squiggled by him, stopping about two feet inside the goal...
...Marty Zukerman will replace Don Gunn in the starting offensive line for Harvard Saturday. The substitution of Zukerman means that the varsity hasn't used the same line two weeks in a row since the Cornell game: it leaves guard Roger Noback and tackle John Peterson as the only lineman to start every game...