Word: lineman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most teams his performance, and personality, would make Holmes famous. Not on the Steelers. With Pittsburgh, he is not even the best-known defensive lineman. There are three reasons: Fellow Tackle "Mean" Joe Greene and Ends L.C. Greenwood and Dwight White, each a prototype of menace at his position and a striking figure off the field. Greenwood, 29 is a brutal tackler, although he says he hates contact and would rather not be known as a football player. Greene, 29, after a season of tossing linemen and runners around like rag dolls, goes home to cultivate his vegetable garden...
Until about 15 years ago, the defensive lineman's primary objective was to come out of the rumble stopping the run. No longer. Faced with increasingly sophisticated passing attacks, the interior defensive line must now think first about rushing the passer. To do that, which requires them to overcome powerful, oversize blocking linemen who launch the offensive attack, front fours operate as a team with complicated strategies of their...
Senior center Carl Culig of McKeesport, Pa., won the second annual Joseph E. Wolf Award as the outstanding Crimson lineman. Culig, a three-year starter, was an All-Ivy center as a junior...
...Crimson fireplug and Russian refugee, defensive lineman Eugene Demchenko, roused the Yale bench with his enthusiastic participation. More than once, self-appointed vigilante Doug Ray spurted onto the field fists clenched at the bewildered Russian, only o be dragged off again by his embarrased compatriots who were anxious to preserve detente...
...offensive lineman is demanding, physically and mentally. Explained Restic, "There are two types of aggressiveness: controlled and uncontrolled. The offensive line has to be controlled. They must be quick, disciplined, intelligent and alert, and ready to adjust quickly to drastic and varied defense changes...