Word: linemen
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...carried 35 times as the Crimson focused its offensive efforts towards a running attack, throwing the ball just 16 times.“The offensive line really did a great job today,” Dawson said. “There were holes open all day. We challenged our linemen to make the running game a priority.”Injuries have plagued Harvard all season. The most noticeable loss has been in the receiving corps, which has seen the top three wideouts felled for weeks, months, or longer. Compounding the Crimson’s offensive inconsistency was Dawson?...
Implausibly, the quarterback almost has to be the toughest guy on the team. Behemoth Baltimore linemen once whimpered under the tongue-lashings of Johnny Unitas, and now the San Diego Chargers are like children in the presence of Dan Fouts. It is not a matter of bodily courage, which Theismann has in abundance. Something about a man just moves other men in this industry, moves them up the field. After he inherited the Redskins four years ago, Coach Joe Gibbs' first disappointment was that his quarterback had none of that. The second was that Theismann couldn't even...
...Chuck Noll, who predicted a few of them "would soon be getting on with their life's work." Immediately Ray Mansfield, 44, a center and therefore a realist, started selling life insurance on the side. "We never have that one extreme moment of football glory," he says, "so offensive linemen are less afraid of living on." They receive on-the-job training in anonymity. A gathering of the heftiest Steelers watched the Super Bowl together that year, and at one point Mansfield gave voice to their unreasonable dream of someday playing in one. As it happened, they would play...
Strange work. Columnists take a ribbing from their fellow journalists, reporters especially, who tend to regard columnists with the same chummy contempt that linemen show quarterbacks. Reporters do the real work, sleep in cars, get kicked by Mafia bosses on the courthouse steps. Even editors do some sweating (yelling is taxing). But columnists ride the gravy train, that's what the pressroom says. In a way, it's true. They manage to arrive home before midnight; they dine with the brass. Their physical exercise consists of pacing all the way to the far end of the study, and often back...
...certain sense of pride accompanies a career that peaks in the National Football League and begins in the Ivy League—as opposed to “big-time college football,” says Birk, where “the linemen are probably 20 or 30 pounds heavier, and the receivers and running backs are probably two or three tenths of a second faster...